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		<title>Researching Relationships: Family, Friendship and Community in Cullercoats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Professor Alison Stenning Both academic and more popular narratives suggest that the apparently individualising impulses of neoliberalism, together with increasing geographical mobility and connectivity, erode the value of local, personal relationships (with, for example, family, friends and neighbours). Yet relationships remain at the heart of our everyday lives. They create an environment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1445&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Brainwashing under freedom&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com/2013/05/14/brainwashing-under-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Nick Pearce from IPPR suggested in a Guardian blog that Labour should &#8216;drop its child poverty target&#8217; and new measures should &#8216;take into account the fiscal realities we now face.&#8216; One of his proposals included &#8216;freezing child benefit in cash terms for a decade&#8217; to &#8216;free up £2.5bn a year to invest in quality childcare services&#8217; which is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1435&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Setting the record straight&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week the Centre for Social Justice published its response to the Joint Public Issues Team report about poverty myths, &#8216;The lies we tell ourselves&#8217;. Called &#8216;Setting the record straight&#8217;, the first page states that the much of the JPIT report &#8216;is based on serious misinformation and fails to give an accurate representation of life [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1430&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dadlessness or factlessness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[child poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Goulden from JRF has written previously about &#8216;the relentless rise of in-work poverty&#8217; and it&#8217;s a phrase we use a lot when presenting to people about some of the issues to be addressed when tackling poverty. Another issue which has seen an interesting increase since the turn of the century, and especially of late, is the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1424&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;In search of the scrounger&#8221; Plus ca change&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I got the book &#8216;In search of the scrounger&#8217; by Alan Deacon out of the library and thought I would share a few of the paragraphs from the Introduction and Conclusions chapters. The book covers the inter-ward period and, more specificially, the 1920&#8242;s. Despite the near 100 year difference, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1415&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is the &#8216;economic reality&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/what-is-the-economic-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[child poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting blog post from Shaun Rafferty at JRF last week suggested, in the byline to the post, that &#8216;Economic reality means the Living Wage can’t be compulsory&#8217; and then went on to argue that lobbying to make the Living Wage compulsory was &#8216;self-defeating&#8217; because &#8216;It’s an economic reality that in the current operating environment there are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1411&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Responsible business has to start with responsible employment</title>
		<link>http://northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/responsible-business-has-to-start-with-responsible-employment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[child poverty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[North East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week is Business in the Community&#8217;s &#8216;Responsible Business Week&#8217; and we&#8217;re very pleased to be able to help report that one large employer in the North East shares our view that responsible business practice has to start with the treatment of employees, including their pay. Fabrick Housing Group, which manages 14,000 properties and is based [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1403&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Erring on the side of kindness&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/erring-on-the-side-of-kindness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, along with Sara Bryson from Children North East, I presented at a FUSE / ASO conference on school meals, inequality and obesity. The event was called ‘Could I have some more please, sir?’ and the focus of our presentation, which can be found by clicking the image below, was on the administration of Free [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1392&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Impoverishment of the UK</title>
		<link>http://northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/the-impoverishment-of-the-uk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Poverty and Social Exclusion Team have just published their first report &#8216;The Impoverishment of the UK&#8217; which documents the deprivation suffered by a growing number of people living below what the public agrees is a minimum standard of living. It is the result of the largest ever study of poverty conducted in the UK, funded by the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1374&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Breadline Britain&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Crossley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow evening, Thursday 28th March, at 7:30pm, the Tonight programme on ITV will provide the first look at the results of the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 2012 – the largest survey of poverty ever conducted in the UK, led by University of Bristol and involving academics from five other universities across the U.K. The research [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=northeastchildpoverty.wordpress.com&#038;blog=25975083&#038;post=1366&#038;subd=northeastchildpoverty&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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