1. Tackling poverty and inequality Julia Unwin, Chief Executive Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

2. Our purpose  Search  Demonstrate  Influence

3. Our work programmes and aims  Poverty: to examine the root causes of poverty, inequality and disadvantage, and identify solutions  Place: to contribute to the creation and development of strong, sustainable and inclusive communities  Empowerment: to identify ways of enabling people and communities to have control of their own lives

4. JRF work on poverty: High level overview  Child poverty  Minimum Income Standards (MIS)  Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion (MOPSE)  Dynamics of Poverty and Place

5. JRF work on poverty: Policy areas  Poverty and Education  Poverty and Ethnicity  Financial inclusion and debt  Cycles of poverty

6. Scotland income deciles Source: Scottish Government. A National Statistics Publication for Scotland. ‘Poverty income inequality in Scotland 2007/08’.

7. Poverty progress in Scotland…  Child poverty progress has stalled – but has decreased overall  Pensioner poverty rate in Scotland has reduced from 31% to 16%  The poverty rate of working-age adults has also fallen to 19% but is now only the same as in 1996/7

8. …compared with other UK nations

9. What are the levers on changing poverty?  Tax  Benefits  Employment  Access to childcare  Public sector pay and conditions

10. The impact of the recession…