An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK, 27/01/10 [E/NI/S/W]
The UK Government Equalities Office has published a report by the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, which details how unequal Britain has become.
The report scrutinises the degree to which the country has become more unequal over the past 30 years. A central theme of the report is the profound, lifelong negative impact that being born poor, and into a disadvantaged social class, has on a child.
The Government has published its own response paper which pledges that the Panel’s work will underpin Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key public bodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions they take, how they can tackle socio-economic inequality.
For full details see An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: report of the National Equality Panel and National Equality Panel: the government’s response which are available from the Government Equalities Office website.
Further Information
An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: report of the National Equality PanelNational Equality Panel: the government’s response
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