JRF announces new partnership
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation partners with the University of Manchester to establish the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has announced a new partnership with the University of Manchester.
A new unit established by the two organisations will ‘promote inclusive growth in Greater Manchester’. The Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit (IGAU) aims to ensure that economic growth brings real benefits to disadvantaged people and places across the region.
JRF said in a statement that ‘according to the 2015 English Indices of Deprivation, twenty-one per cent of neighbourhoods in Greater Manchester (housing over 585,000 people) are among the top ten per cent most deprived in England, while thirty-nine per cent of children in the city of Manchester itself are estimated to live in poverty compared with twenty-five per cent in England as a whole’. The IGAU will provide research, analysis and practical advice to support and influence the new mayor, city leaders, business and civil society. The Unit will also provide comparative analysis and monitoring on other UK cities.
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