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| Year | Date | Title | Summary | Source | File size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | September 16 | What role for community enterprises in tackling poverty? | What contribution can community groups make to tackling poverty in their neighbourhood? Glenn Arradon and Steve Wyler from the Development Trusts Association argue that community-led enterprise organisations including development trusts can act as a driver for positive change, creating a self-help and problem-solving culture, and helping individuals move out of poverty. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 93kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | 21 year's of children's policy in Scotland | This paper reviews policy developments in relation to children over the 21 years from 1987 to 2008. That period divides almost equally into the time before and after the incoming Labour Government introduced devolution. | Action for Children | 152kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | As long as it takes: a new politics for children | The purpose of this report is to assess the way policy has developed over the past 21 years – a span of time commonly considered ‘a childhood’ in the UK, and a period that has seen, across the four nations, many different parties in power. It reveals a short-term, headline-driven political process and investigates whether this has actually served the interests of the most vulnerable children. And it asks what could be achieved in the same period given stability and a longer term approach. | Action for Children | 1.7mb |
| 2008 | September 15 | Disabled children and young people: 21 years of policy | Landing from Mars and looking at 21 years of children’s policy in the UK, one could be forgiven for wondering whether disabled children are children at all. Whatever they are currently called (and never has a group of children had to change their name so frequently: handicapped children, children who are disabled, disabled children, children with disabilities, children with special needs, children with complex needs, children with additional needs) this group of children has occupied a range of confusing and conflicted positions in terms of government policy and guidance: often forgotten or tagged on as an afterthought, sometimes caught up by mistake in general initiatives, occasionally given high priority for brief periods, and subject to intermittent counting frenzies. | Action for Children | 126kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | Children in public out-of-home care: 21 years of policy | For children who may need out-of-home care and those who come into care for short or longer periods, the rate of legislative change, ‘short-termist’ thinking and policy initiatives has been less than for some other groups. With the exception of The Children Act 1989, which is still the major legislation in England and Wales, and the Northern Ireland Children Order 1995 and Children (Scotland) Act 1995, which brought in similar changes, the change that has happened has mostly taken the form of guidance to improve practice standards and legislation to remedy gaps or bring in new governance arrangements. | Action for Children | 155kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | Young people: 21 years of policy | In the UK, the three major strands of government youth policy are employment, the use (or misuse) of leisure, and crime and disorder. Twenty-one years ago, in 1987, youth unemployment was running at record levels, the youth service was being ravaged by financial cutbacks and, despite record annual rises in the crime rate, the number of young people entering the criminal justice system was falling steadily and youth custody was at an all-time low. | Action for Children | 112kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | Family support: 21 years of policy | Looking at family support policy over a 21-year period,
four enduring themes emerge, which are examined in
greater detail in this article:
| Action for Children | 115kb |
| 2008 | September 15 | Research in support of Action for Children's 'As long as it takes' campaign | The overarching aim of this study was to measure the extent of policy churn over the past two decades, counting the number of policies that have been announced in that time and recording the length of new funding sources in order to highlight the effect that it has had upon groups of Action for Children service users. | Action for Children | 411kb |
| 2008 | September 11 | Point of sale tobacco display bans – myths and realities | ASH Scotland has launched a new analysis of international figures which they saw show no reported adverse affect on retailers as a result of removing cigarettes from sight, but a significant positive impact on youth smoking rates | ASH Scotland | 225kb |
| 2008 | September 10 | The media, poverty and public opinion in the UK | Findings This study examines the relationship between the UK media and public ideas of poverty. Although public attitudes cannot be attributed to the influence of mass media, it is important to acknowledge the media’s pivotal role in responding to and reinforcing public ideas about poverty. | Joseph Rowntree Foundation | 134kb |
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