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Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty and Poor Health in the North

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Workshop with Sharon Hodgson (MP for Washington and Sunderland West, Shadow Secretary for Public Health), Abi Conway (CEO, Citizens Advice Northumberland), Anna Round (Senior Research Fellow, IPPR North), Judith Stonebridge (Director of Public Health, Northumbria Health Care Trust), Heather Brown (Newcastle University and Understanding Society Policy Fellow). 

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