Saturday, October 28, 2017

Poverty linked to children in care

That is according to professor of social work at Huddersfield University, Bríd Featherstone, whose UK-based research — the Child Welfare Inequalities Project — has found that it is “primarily the poorest people in our society” that the child protection system is dealing with.

“In every country [England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales] we found a statistically significant link between deprivation and your chances of coming into care.”


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