Professor Ruth Levitas
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first heard May 2012
last heard Aug 2014
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The 120,000 actually comes from a piece of secondary analysis of the 2004 Families and Children's Study.
And in that study, they found that 2% of the families had five of a list of seven characteristics.
No parent in the family is in work.
the family lives in overcrowded housing, no parent has any qualifications, the mother has mental health problems, at least one parent has long-standing limiting illness, disability or infirmity,
The family has a low income, below 60% of median income, and the family cannot afford a number of food and clothing items, which is a measure of material deprivation.
So what we have is a study in which 2% of those families surveyed had five or more of those seven characteristics and were therefore severely, multiply disadvantaged.
Absolutely not.
There is no evidence that the group of families that I identified in the Family and Children's Survey...
are actually troublemaking families.
But the whole discourse that is being created around this is making a slippage from families that undoubtedly have troubles to being troublemakers.
The 120,000 is a rounding up of 117,000.
It actually comes from a piece of secondary analysis of the 2004 Families and Children's Study.
So it's eight years out of date.
And in that study, they found that 2% of the families had five of a list of seven characteristics.
And it's very important to know what those seven characteristics are.
No parent in the family is in work.
The family lives in overcrowded housing.
No parent has any qualifications.
The mother has mental health problems.
At least one parent has long-standing limiting illness, disability or infirmity.
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