Disadvantaged families are at greatest risk from austerity cuts to children’s centres

Hall, James; Sammons, Pam; Sylva, Κathy; Evangelou, Maria; Eisenstadt, Naomi; Smith, Teresa; Smith, George Adam

doi:10.1136/bmj.i897

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“…Masten, 2014). Furthermore, there already exist universal services that aim to have all these effectswith Sure Start Children's Centres in the United Kingdom being one example (although this service and its protective effects are also under threat; Hall et al, 2016).…”

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Unpacking socio‐economic risks for reading and academic self‐concept in primary school: Differential effects and the role of the preschool home learning environment

Crampton

Hall

2017

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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Although the impacts of early socio-economic risks are larger and more easily observed upon reading than upon academic self-concept, they can impact both by making it less likely that children will experience enriching home learning environments during the preschool period. This has implications for social policymakers, early educators, and interventionists. Intervening early and improving preschool home learning environments can do more than raise children's reading abilities; secondary benefits may also be achievable upon children's self-concept.

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Unpacking socio‐economic risks for reading and academic self‐concept in primary school: Differential effects and the role of the preschool home learning environment

Crampton

Hall

2017

Brit J of Edu Psychol

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“…Existing scholarship on children's centres shows that they help improve parent-child interactions, health outcomes, and the quality of the home learning environmentan important influence on social and educational outcomes (Hall et al, 2016 andCattan et al, 2019;Eisenstadt and Oppenheim, 2019). Use of children's centres is also associated with lowering preschool behavioural disorders (Hall et al, 2019).…”

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“…Evidence suggests a significant reduction in their number and funding as the '"early intervention" allocation fell by 64 per cent between 2010/11 and 2017/18' (ibid: 4). Up to 1,000 children's centres may have closed from their peak in 2009 (see also Hall et al, 2016;Smith et al, 2018). The Social Mobility Commission (2019: 31) noted its significance: 'These closures… risk isolating the least advantaged in society and risk the funding for the home learning environment, missing the families that need it most.'…”

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Children’s centres, families and food insecurity in times of crisis

Baker

Bakopoulou

2023

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice

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We examine how children’s centres in a major city in England responded to food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic by helping to run ‘FOOD Clubs’ to support families. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with children’s centre staff, we analyse how clubs were organised, why people joined them, and the range of benefits parents derived from them. We extend the literature on food insecurity which focuses heavily on the rise of foodbanks. Our data also informs broader policy debates around supporting parents in poverty, effective early years provision and the challenges facing families experiencing food insecurity.

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“…For us, the biggest difference was between the professionals' middleclass educated backgrounds and the general public. Whilst the link between relative poverty and poorer health and social outcomes continues to be a relevant factor for both Medicine and Social; Work in all Western countries [8,27,28,39,[45][46][47][48][49][50].…”

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Final year medical and social worker student's socio-political & religious backgrounds compared to the general public: The person-in-the-professional

Pritchard¹

2021

Health Edu Care

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The caring professions of medicine and social work increasingly stress the need for an understanding of the background of services users to develop the necessary professional relationship and to be culturally sensitive. However, we could find no study that focused upon the individual professional's political values, in effect treating professionals as inter-changeable technicians. This study seeks to understand to what extent, final year medical and social work's student's, from two Southern English cities and two adjacent universities, religio-political beliefs vary with the general public whom they would serve. The confidential self-administered questionnaire provided two student's group value system, there were slight differences, more medical students from ethnic minority background and more female social workers, whilst more than half were `agnostics', religious difference were related to student's ethnic background.Ignoring age differences there were statistically significant differnces with the general populations results, based on Social Trends and 2019 General Election. Students were significantly less religious, more left of centre, more middle-class backgrounds than general population. Whilst being younger than those they would serve, was expected, the extent of the religio-policitcal and social class backgrounds suggest that it is the `professionals' who are the `minority' compared with those whom they would serve..

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Disadvantaged families are at greatest risk from austerity cuts to children’s centres

Abstract: As authors of the research outlined in your report we were pleased by The BMJ's coverage of our findings on children's centres. 1 However, we also showed that the threat posed by austerity cuts was even greater in the 20% most financially disadvantaged families in our sample. 2

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Unpacking socio‐economic risks for reading and academic self‐concept in primary school: Differential effects and the role of the preschool home learning environment

Unpacking socio‐economic risks for reading and academic self‐concept in primary school: Differential effects and the role of the preschool home learning environment

Children’s centres, families and food insecurity in times of crisis

Final year medical and social worker student's socio-political & religious backgrounds compared to the general public: The person-in-the-professional

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