Sinking & swimming
Subtitle: understanding Britain's unmet needs
Contributors: Young Foundation (London, England)
Publisher: The Young Foundation
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781905551118
Subjects: Basic needs; Quality of life; Social conditions
Other titles: Sinking and swimming :
Description: "This is a study of who is sinking and who is swimming in Britain today. Based on new analysis of statistical data, case studies, surveys and hundreds of conversations with people across the country, the study shows where the most acute needs are and how they interrelate. It looks at why some people can cope with shocks and setbacks and others can't. And it draws on the implications for policy, philanthropy and public action. The welfare state that was build up after the great economic crisis of the 1930s was designed to address Britain's material needs - for jobs, homes, health care and pensions. It was assumed that people's emotional needs would be met by close knit families and communities. Sixty years later psychological needs have become as pressing as material ones: the risk of loneliness and isolation; the risk of mental illness; the risk of being left behind. New solutions are needed to help the many people struggling with transitions out of care, prison or family breakdown, and to equip people with the resilience they'll need to get by in uncertain times."--End cover page.
Notes: On publisher website: Authors: Beth Watts, Dan Vale, Geoff Mulgan, Michael Dale, Rushanara Ali, Will Norman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-289).

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Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Summary; title: Part I. Introduction; title: 1. Background to the study; title: 2. What are the UK's needs, why are they important and how are they met?; title: Part II. An overview of material and psychological needs: key facts and trends; title: 3. Material needs; title: 4. Psychological needs; title: 5. The relationship between material and psychological needs; title: 6. Groups most vulnerable to unmet needs; title: Part III. Case studies; title: 7. Exploring the impact of life transitions in England and Scotland; title: 8. Mapping needs in London; title: 9. Exploring the impact of worklessness in South Wales; title: 10. in the shadows: needs through a night time lens; title: 11. Exploring family resilience in Teesside; title: 12. The needs of marginalised young people in Bedford; title: Part IV. Responding to need now and in the future; title: 13. The dynamics of need; title: 14. Emerging and future unmet need; title: 15. implications and directions for action; title: Appendices.