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02/10/2020
Webinar: Strengthening Frameworks to Leave No One Behind During COVID-19 and Beyond
Leveraging Policy Data and Harmonized Survey Data to Protect Health and Economic Security: Strengthening Frameworks to Leave No One Behind During COVID-19 and Beyond webinar takes place on Friday 9 October at 13:00 UK time, featuring PSE's Professor David Gordon on the speaking panel.
COVID-19 has eroded progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and governments around the world are passing policies to respond to the threat of the virus at a rapid rate. As policymakers, civil society, international government organizations, and others respond to the on-going crisis, evidence-based tools are needed to ensure that action at scale supports rather than erodes progress towards achieving the SDGs. Panelists include:
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29/01/2016
Journal papers
Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys highlight changes in the conditions of survey production over this 45 year period in the latest output from the PSE research.
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02/09/2013
School-based financial education: will it make a difference?
Julia Kukiewicz asks if school-based education will actually increase financial literacy and how much real help will it offer those struggling on low incomes.
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01/05/2012
Poverty tsar in attack on Prime Minister
The government’s anti-poverty ‘tsar’ has accused the Prime Minister of ignoring a study into how to break the cycle of deprivation. Frank Field MP told the Daily Mail that David Cameron has squandered two years by failing to implement any of his suggestions. He is quoted as saying:
‘I am puzzled as to why the Prime Minister would be so anxious for me to do all this work when he has yet to show that he has read it. This report was about giving the Prime Minister a flagship policy which would have taken politics into a new era. He needs to get on with it.’
In December 2010 a government-commissioned review of poverty and life chances (led by Frank Field) proposed the establishment of the ‘Foundation Years’ – a programme designed to improve the life chances of poor children by improving the quality of the early parenting that they received.
Source: Interview with Frank Field in the Daily Mail, 1 May 2012
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01/05/2012
Early years ‘key’ to social mobility
An all-party group of MPs has said the point of greatest ‘leverage’ for social mobility is what happens to children between ages 0 and 3, primarily in the home. They add that it is also possible to improve social mobility through education – the most important controllable factor being the quality of teaching received.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility is aiming to produce a final report by the end of 2012. Its interim report summarises the evidence it has heard so far. It distils this into seven ‘key truths’, as follows:
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29/02/2012
More research needed on early intervention
Better assessment of the cost effectiveness of early intervention is needed, argues a report from the National Foundation for Educational Research, Early Intervention: Informing Local Practice. The report finds that the case for investing in early intervention is widely accepted and supported but that there was a lack of UK-based evidence concerning its cost effectiveness:
Until recently, UK-based researchers and evaluators have rarely been asked to consider value for money when evaluating the processes and impacts of programmes. Increasingly, however, the landscape is changing, with researchers being asked to consider value for money when carrying out evaluations, and local practitioners, LA officers and commissioners being required to evidence the value of interventions, both on outcomes for children, young people and families and also on local and national assets.
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