1. The UK Poverty
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2. Absolute and relative poverty
Relative poverty generally means that a person can't afford an "ordinary living pattern"—they're excluded from the activities and opportunities that the average person enjoys.
A household is in relative poverty (also called relative low income) if its income is below 60% of the median household income. Because the government is measuring quality of living rather than earning power, incomes are measured after taxes and benefits.

3. Absolute Absolute poverty
Absolute poverty is slightly trickier. The definition used by a number of international organisations (such as the UN and the World Bank) is that you cannot afford the basic needs of life—food, clothing, shelter and so on.
This is absolute in the sense that it is measured relative to a fixed (real) standard of living, rather than relative to the population you are a member of.

4. Issues
Relative poverty measures can lead to some odd outcomes. It's somewhat perverse that you can be 'lifted' out of poverty simply because people around you are poorer.
Absolute measures have their own disadvantages. They won't tell you if those at the bottom are falling even further behind those in the middle, and they won't take into account changes in what we see as the minimum acceptable standard of living

5. Life Expectancy UK
In 1930 the infant mortality rate was at 6.3 percent, with more than one in 20 children dying before reaching 1 year of age. In 2010 the rate was down to less than 0.5 percent.
In 1930 it was expected boys born that year would reach the age of 58 while for the average expected lifespan for girls was about 62 years, The Daily Telegraph reported.

6. POverty

7. Diseases in UK
Acquired infection - During the Second World War there was a significant increase in the incidence of social infections and diseases such as cholera, malaria and polio. These were believed to have been contracted by servicemen who were sent to serve in deprived countries, where such diseases were at epidemic levels. Infection was inevitable, as preventative vaccines had not yet been invented. These types of infection also contributed to significant child and infant death, as children had weaker immune systems to fight the diseases.

8. Living conditions

12. Quote
Henry Duncan carried out a survey of sanitary conditions while still working as a local general practitioner. He found that a third of the population lived in the cellars of these houses, which had earth floors and no ventilation or sanitation, and as many as 16 people to a room.
These conditions predisposed to the spread of epidemic disease.

13. Social Security
At the dawn of the twentieth century there were no old age pensions, unemployment benefits or family allowances. If the main wage-earner died or could not work, a whole family could be plunged into terrible poverty. The state would not interfere.

14. Council Estates

15. NHS July 5 1948 – The NHS is born
When health secretary Aneurin Bevan opens Park Hospital in Manchester (image right), it is the climax of a hugely ambitious plan to bring good healthcare to all. For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists are brought together under one umbrella organisation to provide services that are free for all at the point of delivery

16. Social Security
The Labour Party had just been established and it was winning public support for its campaigns for social welfare policies, such as old age pensions and unemployment benefits. The ruling Liberal Party recognised the threat this new party posed to its traditional support in many working class areas. To counter the threat from the socialist and Labour movement, the Liberals realised that they had to instigate social reforms or risk losing political support from the working classes.

17. NHS

18. Changes in Housing

19. Life Expectancy differnces

20. More Welfare Cuts 12 bn
One way of achieving the £12bn goal could be by reducing the £38bn cost of out-of-work payments to working-age families, for example by cutting entitlements to a third of the recipients, according to John Hills, director of the centre for analysis of social exclusion at the London School of Economics.
“But that would mean hitting lone parents and disabled people and create pressure on food banks and hardship on a scale that would be hard to imagine,” Hills said. “Alternatively you could take it from hardworking families who rely on housing benefit and tax credits. That’s a lot of pain from a large number of people who have just voted for you.”