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View article: System Wide Governance and Leadership: A New Governance Model to Rethink How Performance is Measured; How Integrated Services are Contracted, Funded and Co-ordinated and How Outcomes and Benefits are Assessed
System Wide Governance and Leadership: A New Governance Model to Rethink How Performance is Measured; How Integrated Services are Contracted, Funded and Co-ordinated and How Outcomes and Benefits are Assessed Open
This workshop shares learning from the work of Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership to develop a strategic governance and performance framework that supports person centred practice and assesses impact on outcomes for people. It i…
View article: Law 11.947/2009. The National School Food Program Reviseted
Law 11.947/2009. The National School Food Program Reviseted Open
The aim of this work is to unveil the importance of the Brazilian National School Food Program towards solving the problems of hunger, malnutrition, food sovereignty, food culture (regional), as well as to assert to the new challenges impo…
View article: Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion
Who excludes? Young People’s Experience of Social Exclusion Open
Existing policy research has not comprehensively examined the processes by which young people experience social exclusion: that is, the relationships among different risk factors for exclusion, their actual experiences of exclusion, and ou…
View article: Deprivation and intra‐family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Model
Deprivation and intra‐family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Model Open
Objective The study applies an adapted Family Stress Model (FSM) to analyze the relationship between child material deprivation and intra‐family conflict about money using a nationally representative survey of children in England in 2018. …
View article: Can Schools and Education Policy Make Children Happier? A Comparative Study in 33 Countries
Can Schools and Education Policy Make Children Happier? A Comparative Study in 33 Countries Open
Our understanding of child subjective well-being and how to promote it has improved substantially over the last decade. In relation to the role of education policy in shaping subjective well-being, although valuable research has been condu…
View article: A Different Take: Reflections on an intergenerational participatory research project on child poverty
A Different Take: Reflections on an intergenerational participatory research project on child poverty Open
This article provides reflections on ‘A Different Take’, a participatory action research (PAR) project which aimed to amplify the knowledge of children, young people and parents in anti-poverty research, policy and practice. In recent deca…
View article: The Shifted Interface Method: A flexible approach to embedded interface computations
The Shifted Interface Method: A flexible approach to embedded interface computations Open
Summary We propose a new embedded finite element method to simulate partial differential equations over domains with internal interfaces. Our approach belongs to the family of surrogate/approximate interface methods and relies on the idea …
View article: Fair Shares and Families: a Child-Focused Model of Intra-Household Sharing
Fair Shares and Families: a Child-Focused Model of Intra-Household Sharing Open
This article proposes a child-centric model for intra-family allocation – the sharing of resources within families – based on children's and families' accounts and reports of their experiences and perspectives. Studies of intra-household a…
View article: Money Matters: a Nuanced Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Household Income and Child Subjective Well-Being
Money Matters: a Nuanced Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Household Income and Child Subjective Well-Being Open
This paper examines the links between household income and child subjective well-being. Previous studies produce contradictory findings: qualitative investigations indicate a strong relationship which is elusive in quantitative studies. I …
View article: Front Matter
Front Matter Open
The largest UK research study on poverty and social exclusion ever conducted reveals startling levels of deprivation. 18m people are unable to afford adequate housing; 14m can’t afford essential household goods; and nearly half the populat…
View article: Inequality, material well-being, and subjective well-being: Exploring associations for children across 15 diverse countries
Inequality, material well-being, and subjective well-being: Exploring associations for children across 15 diverse countries Open
Children's material well-being, and the levels of wealth and inequality in societies within which children live, are important factors in determining outcomes. However, less is known about the extent to which these factors have an impact c…
View article: Measuring child poverty: proposed changes will push families into unacceptable hardship
Measuring child poverty: proposed changes will push families into unacceptable hardship Open
Poverty is a lifestyle choice, according to government rhetoric. And although research suggests otherwise, the government wants to redefine poverty and do so by removing all income and material deprivation measures from the Child Poverty A…
View article: Child poverty in the UK: Measures, prevalence and intra-household sharing
Child poverty in the UK: Measures, prevalence and intra-household sharing Open
There is cross-party agreement on the urgency of addressing child poverty in the UK, but less consensus on how to define and measure it, and understand its causes and effects. The Conservative/Liberal Coalition government’s policy and rhet…