Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
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Persistent poverty in Britain : Media Gallery
John Bird MBE
John Bird, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue, talks about tackling poverty in Britain.
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Frank Field MP
Frank Field MP discusses the findings of the Indpendent Review on Poverty and Life Chances
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Julia Unwin CBE
Julia Unwin looks at the ways in which poverty persists in Britain today.
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