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    The document provides a summary of news and publications from the week ending 11 January 2012 related to poverty, housing, and an aging society in the UK. Key points include: the launch of a new JRF programme on housing and poverty; MPs voting in favor of a 1% annual benefits uprating cap for 3 years; analysis showing this will result in a cumulative 4% cut to affected benefits; and new reports on issues like child poverty rates increasing due to the benefits bill and high childcare costs limiting parents' ability to work more hours.

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    The document provides a summary of news and publications from the week ending 11 January 2012 related to poverty, housing, and an aging society in the UK. Key points include: the launch of a new JRF programme on housing and poverty; MPs voting in favor of a 1% annual benefits uprating cap for 3 years; analysis showing this will result in a cumulative 4% cut to affected benefits; and new reports on issues like child poverty rates increasing due to the benefits bill and high childcare costs limiting parents' ability to work more hours.

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    Information Bulletin

    Summary of News and Publications from the Week ending 11 January 2012

    JRF Activity this week


    JRF has launched a new programme on housing and poverty. Read Kathleen Kellys blog and information on the new pogramme. We cant assume informal support will plug the care funding gap, blog from Ilona Haslewood.

    Poverty
    Benefits Uprating Bill This week MPs voted in favour of the Governments proposal for a 1% up-rating cap on benefits each year for three years.

    JRF Reaction to the Bill. The Effects of the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill observations from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, implies a cumulative 4% cut in benefits affected. Fairness and the Welfare Bill, from the BBC economic editor. A new report from CPAG, predicts an increase in absolute and relative child poverty, due to the uprating Bill. The Double Lockout: How low income families will be locked out of living standards. An estimated 500,000 key workers such as nurses, soldiers and teachers, will lose income as a result of the cap of 1% in benefit increases in the next three years, according to analysis from the Childrens Society.

    Other Poverty News Barnardos is calling on the Government to increase the proportion of childcare costs covered through Universal Credit from 70 to 80%. A new Barnardos report shows how many parents are effectively paying to work extra hours, due to high childcare costs. 'Paying to work: childcare and child poverty'.

    New Office for National Statistics figures suggest that children in the poorest households will be put at a disadvantage in completing homework and assignments due to a lack of computer access. In the poorest 10% of households with children 29% had no computer, 36% had no internet access and 43% had no internet connection via a computer. Rising transport costs are making it difficult for thousands of young people to work or participate in education and training, according to a new report from the Work Foundation. A poll of 1,000 Netmums members by the Energy Bill Revolution campaign, found that 80% of those polled were rationing heating at home. 56% are turning the heating off completely when the children are not in the house and a third are going to bed earlier to save energy.

    27% of young people believe their prospects have been permanently damaged by the double-dip recessions, according to the latest Youth Index survey, carried out for the Princes Trust. A TUC survey indicates that those who are most likely to support the Governments benefit cuts have the least accurate knowledge about the benefits system. Surviving Poverty is a new report on poverty and lone parenthood is due to be launched today (Friday 11 January) by the Poverty Alliance and Gingerbread, from research with lone parents in Fife. Twitter #survivingpoverty

    Place
    In London, private renting takes up more than 50% of a familys monthly income in 23 out of 33 boroughs, according to new research by Shelter. A Social Housing Reform Programme has been announced in Northern Ireland to improve performance. Proposals include: The development of a new landlord function outside the public sector focusing on service to tenants and enabling private funding to allow for suitable investment; A new Regional Housing Body for regional housing services, programmes and operational strategies; a Social Housing Rent Panel to agree annual rents. The Housing and Communities Agency has published its prospectus for the Build to Rent Fund, designed to stimulate the private rented housing sector. The 200m Fund is a fully recoverable, commercial investment where the public sector will share risk or bridge finance to allow schemes to be built, managed and let. No Second Night Out, the initiative to support rough sleepers, was launched in York this week, with support from a group of local organisations. The Government funded Private Rented Sector Access Scheme, run by Crisis, has been extended. It helps single people at risk of homelessness by providing advice and support to find and sustain a private rented tenancy. According to the latest index from Glenigan, in the last quarter of 2012 social housing starts were up 48% on the same period of 2011, while private housing starts were 20% higher. A new training programme for tenants, run by the Tenant Participation Advisory Service, has been launched, which aims to give tenants the skills to engage with landlords and set up tenant panels. The Guardian offer six steps for housing providers to tackle digital inclusion, ahead of benefit claims moving online. The Energy Saving Trust and Waterwise have written joint guidance on how to deliver water energy efficiency in the UK. This includes integrating water devices into energy efficiency installation in homes, more help to encourage people to save water and money and more getting more water-saving devices in homes to increase resilience to climate change.

    An Ageing Society
    A new paper from the Housing Learning & Improvement Network looks at the impact of poor housing on the health and well-being of older people. It identifies approaches to influence the provision of housing and housing-related services to improve health outcomes. Health, Wellbeing, and the Older People Housing Agenda.

    The Guardian speculates that people will be encouraged to use their pensions to buy insurance cover for long-term care. The asset threshold above which people would be required to pay for care, along with the cap on the total costs payable by people needing care, have yet to be announced, although the total costs cap is rumoured to be in the region of 70,000. The funding gap for providing adult social care in London will amount to 907 million within five years, according to new analysis by London Councils, supported by Ernst and Young. CentreForum has published a report on how to achieve the Dilnot Commission's proposals on care financing . Delivering Dilnot: paying for elderly care. NHS and social care staff at all levels from porters to doctors, will have access to new training to make sure people know how to provide support for people with dementia. Every NHS ward will have a dementia champion and every NHS organisation a dementia nursing expert. A 50m incentive scheme will be available to improve dementia care in 2013/14. These are part of the new measures announced by the Government to improve hospital care. From 1 April, NICE will take on the new responsibility of developing social care guidance and quality standards and will be known as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. NICE will commission its newly launched Collaborating Centre for Social Care to develop its social care guidance on up to six topics at a time The centre consists of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), and its partner organisations. A report critical of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has been published by the Commons Select Committee Health, calling for an overhaul of its governance and a clearer remit. The report says that the watchdog lacks focus and warns that the CQC inspectors pass standards of care that are certainly too low which has led to a lack of trust by the public. Read the Daily Telegraph article and the Report. Research from Moneyfacts shows that the income generated from a standard annuity for a man aged 65 fell by 11.5% in 2012. Research for new retirees in 2013 suggests that the average expected retirement annual income would be 200 lower than the average expected in 2012 and 3,400 less than in 2008. The Office for National Statistics has decided against a change to the way the RPI measure of inflation is calculated, which could have led to the index increasing more slowly, which would have had a negative effect on pensions.

    This Information Bulletin is produced on a weekly basis as an update for staff at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) for the purposes of their work it is not intended to be comprehensive but represents a selection of news and reports appearing in the last week. The items contained in this Bulletin are for information only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the JRF and JRHT.

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