What are the advantages and disadvantages of regional approaches to tackling poverty and deprivation? By Lauren Wright, word limit 25,000 words Poverty and deprivation remain a huge problem in the UK, The charity Oxfam (2013) reveals that one in five households live below the poverty line, making daily life difficult. The UK government has implemented area-based approaches to tackling poverty and deprivation since the 1960s. These initiatives target geographical areas that experience high levels of poverty and deprivation. These methods have always provoked diverse reactions with divergent opinions on the advantages and disadvantages they present to communities, individuals and society as a whole and on their effectiveness. Poverty is defined in several ways, generally the approach used is relative. income poverty, where a household's income is compared to the median income and families who receive less than 60% of the median income are classified as poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2014). Deprivation, however, is a broader concept than poverty and refers not only to the lack of financial resources, but also to access to services and lack of opportunities. Area targeting in regeneration and social policy has been used by governments since the 1960s. The Plowden Report of 1967, written by Bridget Plowden, was the history-making initiative report that found children were the main beneficiaries new proposals contained in the report (Watson 2013). The main recommendation of the report was the proposal to create priority educational zones. Plowden proposed that resources be increased for the most deprived 2 per cent of areas and their schools, by up to an extra 10 per cent over 5 years. One issue...... middle of paper...... April)Skelcher, C (2000), Changing Images of the State: Overloaded, Hollowed Out, Cluttered. Public Policy and Administration 15:3-19Sure Start (2002) Getting Sure Start Started: National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS). London: Sure StartThomson, H (2007), A dose of realism for healthy urban policy: lessons from local initiatives in the UK. J Epidemiol Community Health 62:932–936University of Hull (2011), Impact of social sciences on policy: Sre Start case study. Hull: University of HullWatson, R (2013), Landmark in EducationL Bridget Plowden's Report on CHILDREN and their PRIMARY SCHOOLS, 1967. https://research.ncl.ac.uk/expeditionresearchscholarships/postergalleries/Rebecca%20Watson.pdf (accessed 6 April) Whitfield, D (2000), Third way for education: privatization and commercialization, Forum: for the promotion of global education from 3 to 19 years 42:5-82

Essay / What are the advantages and disadvantages of regional approaches to tackling poverty and deprivation? By Lauren Wright, word limit 25,000 words Poverty and deprivation remain a huge problem in the UK, The charity Oxfam (2013) reveals that one in five households live below the poverty line, making daily life difficult. The UK government has implemented area-based approaches to tackling poverty and deprivation since the 1960s. These initiatives target geographical areas that experience high levels of poverty and deprivation. These methods have always provoked diverse reactions with divergent opinions on the advantages and disadvantages they present to communities, individuals and society as a whole and on their effectiveness. Poverty is defined in several ways, generally the approach used is relative. income poverty, where a household's income is compared to the median income and families who receive less than 60% of the median income are classified as poverty (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2014). Deprivation, however, is a broader concept than poverty and refers not only to the lack of financial resources, but also to access to services and lack of opportunities. Area targeting in regeneration and social policy has been used by governments since the 1960s. The Plowden Report of 1967, written by Bridget Plowden, was the history-making initiative report that found children were the main beneficiaries new proposals contained in the report (Watson 2013). The main recommendation of the report was the proposal to create priority educational zones. Plowden proposed that resources be increased for the most deprived 2 per cent of areas and their schools, by up to an extra 10 per cent over 5 years. One issue...... middle of paper...... April)Skelcher, C (2000), Changing Images of the State: Overloaded, Hollowed Out, Cluttered. Public Policy and Administration 15:3-19Sure Start (2002) Getting Sure Start Started: National Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS). London: Sure StartThomson, H (2007), A dose of realism for healthy urban policy: lessons from local initiatives in the UK. J Epidemiol Community Health 62:932–936University of Hull (2011), Impact of social sciences on policy: Sre Start case study. Hull: University of HullWatson, R (2013), Landmark in EducationL Bridget Plowden's Report on CHILDREN and their PRIMARY SCHOOLS, 1967. https://research.ncl.ac.uk/expeditionresearchscholarships/postergalleries/Rebecca%20Watson.pdf (accessed 6 April) Whitfield, D (2000), Third way for education: privatization and commercialization, Forum: for the promotion of global education from 3 to 19 years 42:5-82

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