Publisher's Synopsis
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion 1999 and 2000 received considerable attention from both Government and media when they were published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in December 1999 and 2000 respectively. Following the success of the first edition ("Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion: Labour's Inheritance") published one year earlier, this report now enjoys a certain status as an objective record of the progress, or otherwise, that is being made in reducing poverty and social exclusion in Britain.;This report follows the model of 1999 and 2000, focusing on 50 indicators. All the indicators have been updated for the latest data available, showing both how the indicator has changed over time and how it varies between the population as a whole and the more vulnerable groups within it. Each chapter is prefaced by a narrative on how the changes in the various indicators should be interpreted.
