
Child Poverty in Wales
Exploring the Challenges for Schooling Future Generations
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About this book
This edited book is about child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school-community that identified its causes and effects, the challenges it poses for schooling future generations, and a series of local solutions that personify Wales's devolved governments' social democratic social imaginary. These responses all markedly contrast those of conservative UK Westminster governments espousing neoliberal logics for a global economy in consecutive prime ministers' hallmark policies – Thatcher's de-industrialisation, Cameron's austerity, Johnson's Brexit and Global Britain agenda, Truss's Net Zero agenda, and Sunak's new economic agenda in an effort to reunite the Conservative Party and win back public as well as business confidence. These policy agendas are invariably policy failures that play out for children and young people in their lived experiences of poverty and inequalities, and that find expression in social emergencies and humanitarian disasters apropos the cost of living crises, for example, as documented in this volume.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Editors’ Introduction
- Chapter 1 Children First: a place-based approach to addressing poverty and inequalities
- Chapter 2 A balancing act: juggling school policies in a community with unmet needs
- Chapter 3 An ‘open door’ school policy for resident families: croeso/welcome!
- Chapter 4 Hungry kids: families’ food insecurity further exposed by the pandemic
- Chapter 5 Pride is key: the built environment, social housing and fuel poverty
- Chapter 6 ‘It takes a village’ to realise school-community development
- Chapter 7 Lyricism and hip hop to counter miseducation in a school-community in poverty
- Chapter 8 Outdoor learning: addressing student alienation and disengagement by building social capital
- Chapter 9 Collaborative school improvement: developing research-informed support for social justice
- Chapter 10 School Heads: enacting school-community development in response to child poverty
- Chapter 11 The consequences of child poverty and inequalities for future generations
- Chapter 12 Towards a critical understanding of Wales’s present for future generations
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Notes