Eight A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people
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Pauline Heslop
Abstract
A string of reforms over recent years has left disabled people at heightened risk of poverty and social exclusion. This chapter presents an analysis of PSE2012 data in relation to disabled people during the period 2010-2013 in the UK.The results are hard-hitting. The odds of a disabled adult being in poverty were more than three times those of a non-disabled person when risk estimates were adjusted for age and gender. The odds of disabled people being socially excluded from a range of indicators were significantly higher than for non-disabled people for each of the 11 indicators. Comparable data suggests that between 1999 and 2012 the experiences of deprivation and disadvantage for households with disabled people have considerably worsened. Disabled people now appear to be among the ‘poorest of the poor’.
Abstract
A string of reforms over recent years has left disabled people at heightened risk of poverty and social exclusion. This chapter presents an analysis of PSE2012 data in relation to disabled people during the period 2010-2013 in the UK.The results are hard-hitting. The odds of a disabled adult being in poverty were more than three times those of a non-disabled person when risk estimates were adjusted for age and gender. The odds of disabled people being socially excluded from a range of indicators were significantly higher than for non-disabled people for each of the 11 indicators. Comparable data suggests that between 1999 and 2012 the experiences of deprivation and disadvantage for households with disabled people have considerably worsened. Disabled people now appear to be among the ‘poorest of the poor’.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vii
- Notes on contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Introduction: poverty and social exclusion in the UK 1
- Measuring poverty in the UK 17
- The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK 41
- Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners 61
- Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion 95
- Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion 115
- Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion 135
- The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support 155
- A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people 173
- Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK 193
- More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations 219
- Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma 239
- Technical appendix 257
- Index 259
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of tables and figures vii
- Notes on contributors xi
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Introduction: poverty and social exclusion in the UK 1
- Measuring poverty in the UK 17
- The impoverishment of youth: poverty, deprivation and social exclusion among young adults in the UK 41
- Improvement for some: poverty and social exclusion among older people and pensioners 61
- Which men and women are poor? Gender, poverty and social exclusion 95
- Better understandings of ethnic variations: ethnicity, poverty and social exclusion 115
- Improving lives? Child poverty and social exclusion 135
- The cost of children: parents, poverty, and social support 155
- A worsening picture: poverty and social exclusion and disabled people 173
- Devolution and North/South division: poverty and social exclusion in the countries and regions of the UK 193
- More similarities than differences: poverty and social exclusion in rural and urban locations 219
- Conclusion: innovating methods, informing policy and challenging stigma 239
- Technical appendix 257
- Index 259
