Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how
governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are …

Poverty in early childhood is pervasive, affecting every aspect of children's lives. Under
current government policies child poverty in the UK is predicted to rise to 40 per cent by …

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 …

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership
with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the …

Childhood poverty has moved from the periphery to the centre of the policy agenda following
New Labour's pledge to end it within twenty years. However, whether the needs and …

Children's poverty has long been a central concern for policy makers and policy
researchers. The body of extant research conducted and the range of programmatic …

Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple have written the definitive book on child poverty in
New Zealand. Dr Russell Wills, Children's Commissioner Between 130,000 and 285,000 …

Child poverty is currently regarded by many as the'number one'issue in Britain. Yet it has not
always been so high on the policy agenda. What were attitudes to poor children 200 years …

Children's participation and addressing global poverty are two dominant narratives within
global development discourse and policy. Poverty disproportionately affects children, with …

There has been increased attention to children and development, and children's
development, in international policy debates in recent years, reflected in the United Nations …