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| Year | Date | Title | Summary | Source | File size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | October 23 | The GDP cost of the lost earning potential of adults who grew up in poverty | Growing up in poverty reduces employment prospects
and earnings in later life. This has a negative impact
on GDP through lost productivity. Quantifying these
personal and public costs opens the way to discovering
the potential impact of abolishing child poverty.
This report uses data from The British Cohort Study to estimate the impact of growing up in poverty on earnings and employment. It then calculates the aggregate effect of eliminating these disadvantages and therefore improving the labour market earnings of individuals. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 314kb |
| 2008 | October 23 | The costs of child poverty for individuals and society - a literature review | Child poverty has serious consequences for individuals
and wider social implications. These include losses to the
economy through reduced productivity, lower educational
attainment and poor health. While there is a growing body
of evidence on child poverty, comparatively few studies
have attached a financial cost to these consequences.
This report reviews evidence on the impacts of child poverty in industrialised, OECD counties. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 292kb |
| 2008 | October 23 | The public service costs of child poverty | This report aims to provide an estimate of the extra cost to public services of the existence of child poverty. It brings together existing data on how child poverty affects spending on selected services and considers other factors driving expenditure levels. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 445kb |
| 2008 | October 20 | Plan 2 Change Evaluation Final Report | Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health (SDC) was commissioned by the
Craigmillar Pilot Peer Support Service Steering Group to undertake an evaluation
of Plan2Change. Plan2Change is an innovative project based in Craigmillar where a gap in access to support services for those who have considerable mental health difficulties and related life problems has been identified between primary and secondary care. Plan2Change offers a recovery oriented service and is staffed by Peer Support Workers who have lived experience of mental health problems and are able to use their own experiences of recovery to help others to recover. | Scottish Development Centre | 502kb |
| 2008 | October 14 | Cancer Research UK Annual Review 2007 - 2008 | Cancer Research UK Annual Review 2007 - 2008 | Cancer Research UK | 1.9mb |
| 2008 | October 1 | ASH Scotland Annual Report 2007 - 2008 | ASH Scotland Annual Report 2007 - 2008 | ASH Scotland | 500kb |
| 2008 | September 25 | Does anyone care about fairness in adult social care? | This Viewpoint reviews some of the key proposals in adult social care of the last ten years from an equity perspective. It uses the analysis to argue that we can develop practical policies that are informed by clearly stated equity principles which serve to ensure that the most disadvantaged groups of people are treated more fairly. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 100kb |
| 2008 | September 23 | PROP Stress Centre Autumn Newsletter | PROP Stress Centre | 659kb | |
| 2008 | September 22 | Going places!: Ensuring the play and youth strategies deliver for disabled children and young people | In summer 2007 EDCM asked disabled children and young people this question:
“If you were Prime Minister for the day and could change one thing, what
would it be?” The top answer was to ‘have more fun things to do’ – just like other young people. Then, in summer 2008, we asked disabled children and young people this question: “What would more fun things to do and places to go look like for you?” This booklet sets out their answers, and makes recommendations about what needs to happen to ensure all disabled children and young people have the opportunity to be ‘going places’! | Every Disabled Child Matters | 754kb |
| 2008 | September 18 | What future for care? | Discussion of challenging issues for the future of care: people’s rights and needs | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 121kb |
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