Understanding how poverty and inequalities impact on children is the major goal of Young
Lives, a unique longitudinal, mixed-methods study. Two cohorts totaling 12,000 children are …

Within developed countries child poverty is a social problem with significant negative effects.
With a backdrop of austerity, the UK's first child poverty strategy was released in 2011 …

Ruth Levitas 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of the Child (UNCRC)(UNICEF, 2009). It marked the 10th anniversary of former Prime …

Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by
surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is …

Incidents of violence against women and girls currently feature frequently in international
news and, since 2010, have ignited a global policy discussion. The role of education in …

The relationship between children's material circumstances and child abuse and neglect
raises a series of questions for policy, practice, and practitioners. Children and families in …

Purpose–Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to
help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK's first Child …

How do young people get by in hard times and hard places? Have they become a'lost
generation'disconnected from society's mainstream? Do popular ideas about social …

Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal Societies Since 2003 a privately
funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from …

Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. There is a demand for a new
narrative to enable us to escape from the crisis in our society. This book argues that we need …