The gap between the wealth and the poor people

The gap between the wealth and the poor people
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For the poor people usually they live in the space of road but in UK is have difference:

During the 16th century in England, the state first tried to give housing to vagrants instead of punishing them, by introducing bride wells to take vagrants and train them for a profession. In the 17th and 18th centuries, these were replaced by workhouses but these were intended to discourage too much reliance on state help.

Workhouse was a place where people who were unable to support themselves, could go to live and work.

There is, however, some written evidence that workhouses existed before this date.

Records mention a workhouse in 1631 in Abingdon.

The vagrants' and casual workers' ward of a workhouse was colloquially known as a spike, from the tool used to unpick oakum.

This is the poor law in England, Wales, irlandia and scotland.

England and Wales

Victorian workhouse in Ripon, now used by the local council as offices

The English Poor Law of 1601 marked the beginning of state-provided relief for the poor. Although it made no mention of workhouses, it did place a legal responsibility on each parish to care for those within its boundaries who, either because of age or infirmity, were unable to work. The Act proposed the construction of housing for the impotent poor, who included the elderly and chronically sick, but most assistance for the poor continued to be in the form of outdoor relief – money, food, or other necessities given to those living in their own homes, funded by a local tax on the property of the wealthiest in the parish

The workhouse system began to evolve in the 17th century as a way for parishes to reduce the cost to ratepayers of providing poor relief. The Workhouse Test Act of 1723 was introduced to prevent irresponsible claims on a parish's poor rate. Anyone seeking poor relief could be obliged to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work, usually for no pay, a system known as indoor relief. Many parishes established workhouses during the 18th century, and by the 1830s most parishes had at least one.

Gilbert's Act of 1782 was intended to allow parishes to share the cost of poor relief by forming unions – known as Gilbert Unions – to build and maintain workhouses to accommodate the elderly and infirm. The able-bodied poor were instead either given outdoor relief or found employment locally.

Few workhouses were built under Gilbert's scheme but supplementing wages under a system known as the Speenhamland system did become established.

By the 1830s, the system of poor relief was "on the verge of collapse", caused by a large increase in the number of unemployed persons seeking assistance centralized Poor Law Commission was set up in England and Wales under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834, to reorganize the system of poor relief, and to discourage the allocation of outdoor relief to the able-bodied; "all cases were to be 'offered the house', and nothing else”. Individual parishes were formed into Poor Law Unions, each of which was to have a union workhouse.

Ireland

Following consideration of a report by George Nicholls, the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act, 1838 was passed in Westminster. It was the first Irish poor law and was loosely based on the model being promoted for England and Scotland. Nicholls' recommendation, following a series of short visits to Ireland, ran counter to that of a Commission of Enquiry which had examined the issue of an Irish Poor Law for three years, although both recommended indoor relief to the complete exclusion of outdoor relief. His misunderstanding of fundamental differences in the two jurisdictions was ignored, and his reasoning on sectarian and racial lines as to the cause of such extreme destitution in Ireland found acceptance amongst decision-makers one basic difference in the systems as introduced was with respect to the question of parish Settlement. No Law of Settlement was incorporated in the Irish Poor Law as had been included in the English Poor Law of 1662. This was deliberately to ensure that no perceived right of relief accrued to applicants in Ireland; the decision to grant or refuse assistance was at the discretion of the local Board of Guardians. Initially, 130 Irish Unions were created, and a further 33 were added between 1848 and 1850.

Scotland

In 1579, an Act of the Scottish Parliament "For Punishment of String and Idle Beggars, and Relief of the Pure and Impotent" laid the basis of the system of poor relief in Scotland. Each parish had to make a list of its own poor (those who had been born there or who had lived there for seven years or more) "that the aged, impotent, and pure people, sold have lodging and abiding places", and to enable "heritors" or land-owners to take the children of beggars into unpaid service until they were eighteen (for girls) or twenty-four (for boys).

In 1843 a Commission of Enquiry was appointed to consider the operation of poor laws in Scotland. Its report proposed to broadly keep relief organized at the parish level although parishes, particularly in urban areas, should be united for settlement and poor-relief purposes, including the establishment of united poorhouses. They also proposed the creation of a Board of Supervision to oversee the management of each parish's poor relief. These proposals were put into effect on 4 August 1845 in an Act for The Amendment and better Administration of the Laws Relating to the relief of the Poor in Scotland. This was an enabling Act: parishes could create poorhouses, but were not required to do so, and could group together to provide common poorhouses.

Workhouses were also established in many European countries, but the system was most highly developed in Great Britain and Ireland. Holland, for instance, had only three large workhouses for the entire country, whereas the English county of Cheshire alone had 31 by 1777. Some parishes contracted out their poor-relief provisions – a private contractor would manage the parish's workhouse system for a fixed annual fee. Workhouses were generally harsh and punitive establishments for which Dickens and other writers used the ironic nickname "paupers' palaces"

The Wealth

For the wealth people usually they live near of the capital city or on the downtown UK. And also especially in UK London is the rich city so some rich people choose London be where they live.

The Region

The region of the poor people in UK excessively in Scotland It said Scotland had the largest number of poor people in each of the last four decades, as well as the highest death rate of all 14 regions examined. In 1970, 27% of the Scottish population was classed as breadline poor, with the figure dropping to 23% in 1980. By 1990, 27% of Scots fell into the category, but this rose to 32% in 2000, according to the report.

The region of the rich people in UK excessively in London London is a city of contrasts. It is dynamic and successful and as Europe's richest city it is a key global financial centre. The estimated total Gross Value Added (GVA – an indicator of economic output) for London was 20 % of the UK total, roughly £2651 billion in 2008. Inner London has a per capita GDP over three times the EU average.

London also has some of the most deprived areas in the UK with high levels of worklessness, crime, health and educational inequalities. For example, 28 % of London's neighbourhoods are within the top 20 % most deprived in England.

The 2001 Census shows almost 30 % of London's population belongs to a minority ethnic group, making it one of the most diverse and culturally rich cities in the world. Over 300 languages are spoken in the city and there are at least 50 non-indigenous communities of 10,000 people or more.

Key facts:

• London is a key visitor attraction with the number of people visiting the capital’s tourist and cultural attractions including galleries and museums in April 2009 rising by 20% to 3.6 million, according to figures from Visit London.After the financial and business sector tourism is London’s second largest industry.

• Male life expectancy in London is 78.2 years and female life expectancy is 82.7 years, both higher than the England average.

• Over 40 % of working age adults in London have a degree level qualification or higher, compared with 30.5 % in England.

• English is an additional language for over half of primary school pupils in Inner London compared to 15.2 % for England.

• Recorded crime in London to September 2009 has decreased by 2% since the last year and there has been an increase in the percentage of adults who agree that the police and local councils are dealing with the anti-social behaviour and crime that matter in the local area.

• London has the highest level of business start ups in the UK.

• London is the most ethnically diverse region in the UK. Of the 20 most ethnically diverse councils in the UK, 19 are in London.

• 32.5% of London children live in poverty (552,725 children) with 68% of these in lone parent families.

• 36% of children in London live in social housing.

• Employment rates in London are relatively stable at 70%.

• There were 28,302 new homes built in London in 2008/09

London is not the whole of Britain, and sometimes the rest of Britain has reasons to be grateful, because there are things that happen to London that shouldn't have happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Elsewhere in the country, if you have any money left after recent developments in the world financial market, you might have some hope of building your house higher if you want to, or even adding a bit on to it. In London that's harder, but it's still possible to build downwards. You can put some extra floors under your house.

At the bottom end they are mainly British, at the top almost entirely foreign. Thus out of the top 10 people in London and the South-east, only one - Sir Richard Branson - is British. Of the top 10 richest in Britain, as revealed in the latest Sunday Times survey, only three are British. The three richest - Lakshmi Mittal, Roman Abramovich and Hans Reusing - are Indian, Russian and Swedish.

Live of the wealth people in UK

At the top the rich fall into two main groups: global entrepreneurs who chose to relocate to Britain and tax exiles from continental Europe, in particular Scandinavia. Further down there are larger numbers of people who have come to London to make money, mostly in financial services, including many Americans and Britons.

So the conclusion of that statement is alot of rich people in UK have contribute in others jobs and they are leader.

Live of the poor people in UK

They had a rough and hard life, often ending up in the workhouse or early death.

* had few luxuries.

* ate food they could afford to buy

* worked long hours

* lived in damp, filthy conditions.

* Many children died of disease.

Being poor mean having little money or few possessions.

You need money to buy things such as food and clothes. If you don't have much money you can't buy many things.

DAFTAR PUSTAKA
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workhouse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7750728.stm

http://www.gos.gov.uk/gol/OurRegion/