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Joseph Rowntree (1836–1925) was a businessman and philanthropist who, with his son, developed the Rowntree confectionery company from its modest beginnings as a cocoa works in York
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The Rowntree Foundation's recent exercise in identifying contemporary social evils throws up a combination of the usual suspects
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Authenticity is a key ingredient for all kinds of professions
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Shocking figures are emerging about the rapid growth in youth unemployment, as the recession goes on
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One of the main echoes that can be heard from Rowntree's work on social evils 100 years ago is the health of the public
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George and Richard Cadbury, Titus Salt, Lord Leverhulme and Joseph Rowntree were not only entrepreneurs but social reformers
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In South Tyneside, over half our residents live in neighbourhoods ranked in the 25% most deprived in England
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Rarely will a week go by without a dramatic heading about the problems of the 'youth of today', as we saw in May 2009 after Ministry of Justice figures showed that Persistent Young Offenders in England and Wales had increased from just under 10,000 in 1997 to nearly 16,000 in 2008
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There are moments in local politics when you feel that you have been struck down by lightning. One of those times was at a meeting with residents on the White City estate
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Research shows that many citizens feel there has been a decline in what is often referred to as the 'community of place'
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'Worklessness' – or long-term absence from employment for large numbers of people – is a relatively new phrase and historically a relatively new concept
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In the relentless public conversation about what is wrong with how we live now, the family is high on the list of culprits
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Recently the Joseph Rowntree Foundation sought people's views about life in the 21st century and asked them to identify which 'social evils' pose the greatest threat
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At a city council by-election earlier this year, I knocked on the door of a declared Liberal Democrat supporter to be met with a torrent of abuse
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The contents of a prime minister's red box gives a good overview of current and growing social evils – or 'challenges' as officials prefer to call them –jostling for attention
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An inquiry into contemporary social evil
