Rethinking UK’s 2025 Child Poverty Strategy
Beyond the Applause
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Behind the Rubble: How the War and Poverty Transformed Education in Aleppo?
Jian Bakir on poverty and war in Syria.
Immigration and Child Poverty
A different discussion needs to be had about those whose childhood is shaped by immigration status.
Destitution and Poverty
Is the distinction between poverty and destitution only academic hairsplitting?
Innovating Philosophical Thinking About Child Poverty – a Non –Species Specific Focus
Considering animal child poverty alongside human child poverty offers an innovative approach to developing philosophical arguments against child poverty by drawing on evolutionary, ethical, and ecological perspectives. This broader consideration can deepen our...
Overturning Negative Stereotyping About Poverty – A Biological Perspective
Negative stereotypes about poverty are mobilised frequently to justify a blaming-the-victim approach to the phenomenon. A typical push-back is to deny the stereotypes. The trouble with this response is that it sets up a clear cognitive dissonance between the...
Tackling Child Poverty – A headteacher’s Perspective
What should school management think about when tackling child poverty?
The Three Challenges of Talking About Poverty as a Graduate of a Poor Childhood
‘It is a foul thing to ask the poor to describe their childhood’
Poverty – a Gendered Perspective
To what extent can poverty be gendered?
Child Poverty and Education: introduction
Poverty is one of the most serious and urgent problems affecting children globally. Official statistics show that across the world, about one child in five live in extreme poverty, and according to UNICEF 100 million children fell into poverty due to the effects of...