A Review of Devolved Approaches to Child Poverty
This paper provides an overview of devolved strategies to tackle child poverty in the UK; builds on JRF’s earlier work assessing the impact of devolution for low-income people and places
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Transforming Rehabilitation: A summary of evidence on reducing reoffending
This summary provides an overview of key evidence relating to reducing the reoffending of adult offenders. It has been produced to support the work of policy makers, practitioners and other
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Effectiveness of school-based life-skills and alcohol education programmes: a review of the literature
This summary presents the findings of a review of UK and international academic literature published since 2008, undertaken by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) on behalf of Alcohol
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Food for Thought. Reflections on the project – Podcast
Professor Daniel reflects on the main messages from the original food practices research as well the the Food for Thought project, highlighting the value of combining practice based evidence with
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Imprisoning the mentally disordered: a manifest injustice? – Podcast
Prisons are populated by offenders with various forms of mental disorder. How does the law justify this, does their presence undermine the legitimate purposes of imprisonment, and should anything be
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National Statistics Community Care Statistics, Social Services Activity, England – 2012-13
This is a report on the social care activity of Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) in England. It contains information taken from council administrative systems used to record
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Pilotlight: self-directed support for those with mental health problems – Podcast
The Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 goes live on the 1st April 2014 and the implementation of the National Strategy is well under way across Scotland. Pilotlight is
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Prevalence and incidence rates of autism in the UK – Podcast
BMJ Open editor-in-chief Trish Groves talks to Hershel Jick, Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program, Boston University School of Medicine, about his paper looking into prevalence and rates of autism in
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The Ethics of the Cognitive Sciences: children’s pathologies – how do we think about children’s mental health? (Podcast)
The classification, identification and treatment of mental illnesses in children raises particular challenges. For example, what are the appropriate criteria for diagnosing children with a mental disorder? How can we
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National Evaluation of Flying Start: Impact Report
The Flying Start programme aims to improve outcomes for children in some of the most disadvantaged areas across Wales. This is done through providing four key Flying Start entitlements to
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