Poverty study costing £4.3m hailed as most detailed ever

A MASSIVE £4.3m investigation to be held into the scale of poverty across Britain has been hailed as the most detailed ever carried out.

Experts from York University will be among those joining colleagues from across the country in the inquiry which will also examine the causes of poverty and its outcomes.

The study is the latest in a series in the past 40 years to measure poverty, deprivation and social exclusion. It will look at changes in the nature and extent of poverty and social exclusion in the last decade.

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Prof Jonathan Bradshaw, director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at York, who is the UK's leading expert on child poverty, said all the three main political parties were committed to ending child poverty by 2020.

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