disadvantage
Projects on the theme 'disadvantage'
Financial Poverty (draft)
Our work on financial poverty links to our work on financial disadvantage, and builds on the findings of our disadvantage study.
Topics: rural-advocate fuel-poverty children-and-families training skills financial-inclusion disadvantage disadvantage
Financial exclusion is a real challenge in rural areas. Financially excluded people living in rural areas are less visible and more difficult to reach than those in urban areas.
Topics: financial credit-union financial-inclusion post-offices social-exclusion financial-poverty fuel-poverty financial-inclusion state-of-the-countryside rural-economies
In rural England two fifths of the population is over 50, a quarter over 60, and 1 in 12 over 75, and these proportions are growing.
This demographic trend has a wide-ranging effect not...
Topics: older-people social exclusion services social-inclusion fuel-poverty housing disadvantage
Financial Disadvantage (draft)
We're investigating Financial Disadvantage, examining the delivery in rural areas of one or more of the benefits/tax credits system, the National Minimum Wage and initiatives to assist with banking/credit/debt.
Topics: fuel-poverty financial-inclusion children-and-families disadvantage social-inclusion
Disadvantage Study (past)
When the Commission was launched in March 2005, we announced that we would undertake a major baseline study on rural disadvantage...
Topics: older-people disadvantage
When the Commission was launched in March 2005, we announced that we would undertake a major baseline study on rural disadvantage...
Topics: data disadvantage poverty older-people
To complement and support the work of the Rural Advocate and our independent watchdog responsibilities, we have brought together survey-based information on the perceptions and priorities of rural people.
Topics: rural-insights data disadvantage rural-advocate
