Breakthrough Britian 2015 – An overview
September 2014
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In 2007, the Centre for Social Justice published Breakthrough Britain, a report which shone a light on the shocking levels of deprivation that blight communities across the UK. The project transformed the British political landscape, reinvigorated a tired debate on how to tackle poverty and was hailed as a definitive research paper on social problems in modern Britain.
Seven years on, the UK is in a radically different political and economic position – but the need to give a voice to the most disadvantaged people could not be greater. For this reason we have spent the past two years researching Breakthrough Britain 2015 – a fresh assessment of how the root causes of poverty are continuing to hold back people, communities and families. This overview document summarises the process that we have followed, the journey we have been on, and the conclusions we have reached.