Low income Britain

A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation takes a long, hard look at government policy on place, poverty and welfare. The Living Through Change in Challenging Neighbourhoods project is the result of 3 years’ research in six low income neighbourhoods across the country. The report focuses on community cohesion, encouraging localism, community regeneration and enhancing opportunities to enter the labour market. A team from Durham University has also been looking at regeneration, here in the context of former coalfield communities. A key insight from this research is the way that its authors consider the relationship between well-being, community resilience and health, as an interview on their departmental blog underlines.