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Video Resources on UK Relative Poverty

Geoff Riley

7th March 2011

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Here is a selection of video resources that I have used recently to support my teaching of poverty and inequality issues - special reference here to the UK (I have drawn on BBC news videos and special clips from oxfam and other agencies)

Save the Children attacks child poverty figure (BBC Feb 2011

More children living in severe poverty in Britain (BBC news, Jan 2010)

Parenting key to break child poverty (BBC news, December 2010)

New benefit changes to be introduced for single parents (BBC news, Oct 2010)

Living on £50 a week

Oxfam - Hard Times / Real Lives

The day out has to wait

Barnardo’s - the trap of child poverty

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.