ONS have published new private rented affordability analysis for 2024.

Ratios of rents to incomes dipped in 2022/23 as incomes climbed faster than rents.

Rents have been catching up so affordability has worsened again and seems likely it will continue to worsen through 2025...

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"A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland"

Edited with @alisonphipps.bsky.social and @esaldegheri.bsky.social

The book is FREE to download from www.multilingual-matters.com

This isn’t about individual choices, it’s about the environments people live in, the opportunities they have, and the support systems around them.

source: www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

This isn't just a statistic, it's people's family members dying before they should, and all the pain that comes with that. It's also a reflection of deep-seated structural issues.

In the most deprived parts of England, there were an expected 569 early deaths for every 100,00 people. The (unweighted) average in England was 446.

The latest figures released yesterday on premature mortality in England and Wales reveal another stark and persistent inequality: From March 2021 to December 2023, people living in the most deprived areas were 64% more likely to die prematurely than those in the least deprived places.

The data shows a clear and growing trend: inequality is deepening, and it’s costing people not just years of life, but years of quality life. This growing disparity highlights the urgency of addressing the social and economic factors that continue to shape unequal health outcomes across the country

‼️ That's a nearly 20-year gap, not in lifespan, but in the number of years lived in good health‼️

With the state pension age now at 66 (and rising), many people in the most deprived areas are spending their final working years in poor health, or not living long enough to enjoy retirement at all.

Between 2020 and 2022, men and women born in the most deprived areas could expect to live just 51.1 and 50.5 years in good health, respectively.

In contrast, those in the least deprived areas could expect over 70 years of healthy life.

🚨 New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) reveals a stark and persistent truth: in England, the place you're born still plays a major role in determining how well (and how long) you live.

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Hooray for Dr Beth Cairns, Dr @scothunter.bsky.social, & Dr Jade Hooper getting PhDs!

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1 in 6 children in Wales has been in poverty in 3 out of the last 4 years.

🚨 Urgent, radical action from the Welsh and UK governments is needed to avoid lasting consequences.

Our report out today with the Bevan Foundation lays bare the state of poverty in Wales in 2025.

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Where will the cuts to sickness & disability benefits hit hardest?

New @jrf-uk.bsky.social constituency analysis shows the % of working age people receiving these benefits in England & Wales.

Some MP inboxes are likely to be brimming, as concern about these plans is widespread

You would kind of hope that the Jobcentre might know where to find workers to fill its own vacancies really wouldn't you?

Today’s poverty statistics show that the Scottish Government has failed to meet the interim child poverty reduction targets.

240,000 children is Scotland remain in poverty (AHC). To have met the targets a further 40,000 children would need to have been lifted out of poverty.

All ethnic minority groups in the UK continue to face persistent poverty with no signs of improvement from last year.

📊 New DWP figures show people in Bangladeshi households are still 3x more likely to be in poverty compared to white households, and Pakistani households are 2.5x more likely.

New poverty rate figures show the West Midlands, London and the North West had the highest child poverty rates with over a third of children in poverty.

In Scotland (where things are being done differently) the child poverty rate is joint lowest for the UK at 23%.

Around 4.5 million children are living in relative poverty after housing costs. 200,000 more since before the pandemic.

These are record numbers of children living in poverty.

Latest DWP figures on Households Below Average Income has found 🔽 1/3

Seeing as we are barrelling towards A Major Fiscal Event I'm reposting some polling I recently did for @danneidle.bsky.social on the profound lack of understanding the public have about tax and spending.

taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...

The Chancellor said today that she would not do anything to put household finances in danger

Yet the government’s own assessment shows their cuts to health related benefits risk pushing 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children 📢

Their assessment also found... 1/3

Yesterday, the Government’s launched the #PathwaystoWork green paper. It plans to create a “clearer youth phase” by changing benefit rules for young people to support its new Youth Guarantee.

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@jrf-uk.bsky.social has analysed caseload data and can see much of the forecast growth in PIP spending is directed at people with significant difficulties across a range of areas. Over half of the growth in spending is from people in receipt of the higher rate in both PIP elements.

Very pleased to have a part in this