1. London’s Poverty Profile – Building an evidence base Tom MacInnes New Policy Institute

2. Why? Because London has high levels of poverty and high levels of wealth Story to tell locally/ regionally and nationally Reports convey the scale and texture of London’s poverty and disadvantage Can identify emerging areas, eg in work poverty Provides evidence for advocacy and lobbying

3. It compares London to the rest of England We try to split Inner and Outer where possible

4. It compares within London

5. Grouping up the boroughs into sub regions is also useful – compare the Inner West…

6. …with the Inner East

7. And tries to cover a range of issues Long term positive trends in health and education – not all bad news

8. How we choose the evidence Obviously we want to tell a story, but it has to be believable and reliable Use official statistics to reflect government’s progress or lack back at them We use statistics we can track over time – sources we can return to Use the whole population covered where possible – not a sub section Be able to compare different places and time periods Works well when things change slowly, less so in periods of dramatic change So we try and augment the findings with interviews and new sources of data, eg FOI requests

9. This year’s report Will cover low income, unemployment, ill health, low pay… Big focus on welfare reform and housing, as they were the issues people talked about most when we interviewed them A very (very) short sneak preview follows

10. Official homelessness is up a little…

11. Rough sleeping is up a lot…

12. Big rise in people claiming housing benefit…

13. ..mainly in private rented, where the average claim is higher

14. Conclusions LPP does provide an evidence base – it’s there for people to use Compare your borough with other boroughs Put things in a London and national context Always looking to expand and improve – let us know what’s missing