Poverty has major implications upon billions of people in very country in the world. So in this essay I will be narrowing this down and will be discussing how poverty effects, women, children, disabled and different ethnicities within the UK and the different issues arise for social work practice as a result of these impacts. Furthermore I will be exploring why this has such an effect upon their life chances and opportunities. In addition I will be discussing how poverty in the UK has progressed over time and how social workers and the government have adapted to try and tackle these problems.
Britain’s difficulties with poverty has stretched for hundred of years yet still the question of how to rid poverty from the poor has not been answered. …show more content…
Where poverty affects the person’s future life chances and opportunities significantly are with children, two areas that are highly impacted due to poverty, is education and health. Education enables a person to achieve higher qualifications and will provide more opportunities to acquire work. There are many instances in which it shows the disadvantage children in poverty face when it comes to education. For example “nearly 90 per cent of failing schools are located in deprived areas” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153) and living in poverty makes you “more likely to expect to leave school at 16” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153). In addition children attending in schools in the most deprived locations in Britain only have a “10 to 25 per cent(J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153) in getting GCSE grades A* to C. This compared to the national average of 48%. This is an example of relative poverty as these child are not getting the same opportunities than other’s across the country. Due to this early effects her have long term implications, as the child has a decrease in chance in achieving a job. This can be seen in 2003 report which showed “11 per cent” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.79) of people with a lack of qualifications were unemployed, compared to four per cent with. From this one can conclude that poverty limits a child’s education and opportunities. The second major impact due to poverty when concerning …show more content…
We see that poverty effects there education, life expectancy, mental and physical health and more likely to be unemployed. From this it’s clear that more funding needs to be implanted to ensure the younger generations has better life chances and give them the opportunities unlike their
Britain’s difficulties with poverty has stretched for hundred of years yet still the question of how to rid poverty from the poor has not been answered. …show more content…
Where poverty affects the person’s future life chances and opportunities significantly are with children, two areas that are highly impacted due to poverty, is education and health. Education enables a person to achieve higher qualifications and will provide more opportunities to acquire work. There are many instances in which it shows the disadvantage children in poverty face when it comes to education. For example “nearly 90 per cent of failing schools are located in deprived areas” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153) and living in poverty makes you “more likely to expect to leave school at 16” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153). In addition children attending in schools in the most deprived locations in Britain only have a “10 to 25 per cent(J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.153) in getting GCSE grades A* to C. This compared to the national average of 48%. This is an example of relative poverty as these child are not getting the same opportunities than other’s across the country. Due to this early effects her have long term implications, as the child has a decrease in chance in achieving a job. This can be seen in 2003 report which showed “11 per cent” (J. Flaherty, 2004, pg.79) of people with a lack of qualifications were unemployed, compared to four per cent with. From this one can conclude that poverty limits a child’s education and opportunities. The second major impact due to poverty when concerning …show more content…
We see that poverty effects there education, life expectancy, mental and physical health and more likely to be unemployed. From this it’s clear that more funding needs to be implanted to ensure the younger generations has better life chances and give them the opportunities unlike their