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Social justice and young adults
The Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield, has advocated that children being looked after by the state should have the right to be...
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Prisoners and looked after children - a common cause?
In August 2014, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) published a set of Findings as...
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Anti-poverty strategies for prisoners and looked after children
On November 17 we held an event entitled ‘Prisoners and looked after children – a common cause?’.
The roundtable was full to capacity, with many delegates representing organisations working directly with people in need. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies' Research Director, Roger Grimshaw, presented the case for a new social policy on poverty that introduces a principle of reparation...
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Institutional care and poverty: making common cause?
Consider this scenario: a social policy analyst examining evidence about two groups in institutional care notices that many members of each group come from a background of poverty and face an...