London Poverty Profile launched
22 May 2009
The City Parochial
Foundation and the New Policy Institute have launched a
comprehensive profile of poverty and inequality in London.
London's Poverty Profile is the first independent report
covering the issues, allowing the UK's charities free access to
statistics about health, unemployment, education, housing and
homelessness.
Anthony Browne, policy director for the mayor of London, called
the publication "the best produced and best researched report by a
thinktank in a very long time", while Tony McNulty, minister for
employment and welfare reform, said he hopes it will help raise
awareness of issues in the capital.
The report could be used by third sector organisations based in
London as the foundation for new public campaigns.
It reveals, for example, that the proportion of men who die
before the age of 65 is significantly higher in inner London than
in any other region in England, while Bangladeshi households are
three times as likely to be living in poverty as white
households.
The New Policy Institute is a thinktank funded by charitable
foundations, voluntary sector organisations and public bodies.
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