Table des matières
Part I: Back to the future?
Part II: The big issues
5. Meeting Basic Needs
- Wolves at the door
- Family voices
- Constant struggle
- The weekly shop
- The costs of child-care
- Cutting back
- Keeping something back
- New and old
- Budgeting
- Fuel poverty
- Cold homes
- Pre-payment meters
- Switching supplier
- Public transport
- Cars
- Debt: how it happens
- Banks and credit cards
- Pay-day loans
- Door-to-door lending
- Cash conversion and pawning
- Catalogues and shop credit
- Credit unions
- Individual Voluntary Arrangements
- Extra costs
- Conclusion
6. Home and Family Life
- A roof over your head
- Paying for the kids
- Staying healthy
- Family voices
- Rent
- Security of tenure
- Housing conditions
- Social housing
- The neighbourhood
- The ‘bedroom tax’
- Clothing growing children
- School uniforms
- School dinners
- Out-of-school activities
- Pocket-money
- The TV
- Family occasions and Christmas
- “Children can’t understand”
- Mental health
- Partners
- Sick children
- A healthy diet
- The NHS—free at the point of use?
- Pressure on relationships
- Reliance on family
- Support from ex-partners
- Social life
- Holidays
- Thinking of others
- Conclusion
Part III: Just managing? Perspectives on poverty
Appendix II: Family Circumstances and Spending
- Mark and Ruth
- Colette
- Zoe
- Tammy and Malcolm
- Eileen
- Emma
- Amy
- Karolina and Micha
- Phoebe and Gavin
- Joy
- Janet
- Fiona
- Will and Sam
- Brenda and Colin
- Liam and Grace
- Sian and Steve
- Gaynor
- Liz
- Luke and Minnie
- Chang and Jiao
- Ali and Rabia
- Jenny
- Amber
- Phil and Dot
- Karen and Steve
- Carol and Ric
- Terri and Don
- Denise
- Nick and Cath
- Carol
