Overview
- Creates a vision for the future including how we might get there
- Draws from the annual Action on Poverty Conference
- Seeks to engage academics, politicians, policy makers, and community development workers internationally
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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About this book
This book tackles poverty and policy issues in the UK by discussing successful projects and practices, across lots of short chapters. The first section provides a brief history overview of poverty in the UK over the past two hundred years and discusses the question of why the UK, as a wealthy western nation, still has a poverty issue. It discusses various vulnerable groups and contextual factors which lead to these inequalities. The second section articulates what anti-poverty work is and shares project examples from across the country where anti-poverty workers are supporting people to survive and then to thrive. Lived experiences voices are articulated to present examples of poverty being experienced. This book draws on academic and practitioner work and aims to equip the activist and inform the student, academic and policy maker.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Action on Poverty in Context
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Global, National and Historical Perspectives on Poverty and Hardship
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Public Health, Community Development and Lived Experience of Poverty
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Action on Poverty and Hardship in Practice
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sarah Page is an Associate Professor in Social Justice and Social Learning at Staffordshire University and teaches on Action on Poverty, Mentoring and Criminology courses.
Martin Coates is Lecturer on the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty, and Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree at Staffordshire University, UK. Martin has over 20 years of experience of working social welfare field of law, policy and advice.
Julie Tipping is Senior Lecturer and the Course Leader for the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty at Staffordshire University, UK; she also teaches on the Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree.
Juliette Frangos is Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University, UK, and Course Leader for the Certificate of Credit in Money Advice Practice; she also teaches on the MA Leadership in Action on Poverty and the Social Welfare Law, Policy and Advice Practice degree.
Katy Goldstrawis Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at Staffordshire University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Action on Poverty in the UK
Editors: Sarah Page, Martin Coates, Julie Tipping, Juliette Frangos, Katy Goldstraw
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37182-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37181-3Published: 17 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37184-4Published: 17 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37182-0Published: 16 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 351
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime and Society, Social Work and Community Development, Politics of the Welfare State, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Critical Criminology, Political Sociology