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Letter to Frank Field - a family approach to child poverty?11th July 2010, 6:37am |
I have written to Frank Field in response to his speech about fathers and child poverty. I have copied it to Iain Duncan-Smith and Nick Clegg. In summary:
Child poverty is a family function, not just an issue between a child and a “primary carer”. The ability of adults in…
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The struggles of single parents in UK
19th January 2010, 11:46am |
I was talking to a divorced single father the other day. I know all the theory about the difficulties that single parents face (I lack the direct experience, being neither divorced nor separated) but being faced by the reality of a single case sometimes has more power than the theory. …
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Interesting on-line conversation about parental separation and child poverty
20th July 2009, 8:35pm |
My last blog is the first blog of mine that has stimulated discussion on-line, with particularly insightful comment by Karen Woodall who leads the Centre for Separated Families. I am so excited about this that all I want to do in my blog this week is recommend that people read…
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Fathers are a resource in the fight to end child poverty (again)
10th July 2009, 7:03pm |
In an earlier blog, Fathers are a resource in the fight to end child poverty, I wrote an open letter to the Minister for Children. I made three points:
how fathers work is important to children in poverty; employment offices should engage with men with caring responsibilities as they do…
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