Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy.

The Foundation also carries out practical innovative projects in housing and care through the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. They seek to ensure that these and the findings from the research programme are helpful in the development of better policies and practices across the UK.

Currently funded projects:

• Micro-simulating child poverty in 2010 and 2020: an update
• Children in poverty: aspirations, expectations and attitudes to education
• Child poverty in 2020
• Lone parents, tax credits and mini jobs
• Can governments reduce poverty and improve work incentives?
• Flat Taxes
• Poor households and their expenditure
• Supporting families with children