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Protect, support, provide
— examining the role of grandparents in families at risk of poverty; prepared for Grandparents Plus and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) ... | | Author(s) | Julia Griggs |
| Corporate Author | Grandparents Plus; Equality and Human Rights Commission - EHRC; Department for Social Work, University of Oxford |
| Publisher | Grandparents Plus, London, March 2010 |
| Pages | 69 pp |
| Source | Download (3/3/10): http://www.grandparentsplus.org.uk/publications_fi... |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Poverty ; Social class ; Family relationships ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and Grandparents Plus are working in partnership to examine the relationship between older and younger people's poverty through the grandparent-grandchild relationship. This report focuses on several groups particularly vulnerable to poverty (single parent families, families where a child or parent has a disability, black and minority ethnic families, and family and friend carers). It explores the shape and nature of deprivation for those grandparents and grandchildren. In particular, it considers the scale of grandparents' childcare contribution, and how the childcare they provide may increase the risk of poverty for themselves, given the evidence on intergenerational patterns of poverty (e.g. the higher incidence of lone motherhood from those who grew up in low income households). The report draws on analysis of British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey data and other existing data. The remainder of the findings section comprises a synthesis of research evidence uncovered during the literature review. It therefore starts to fill in the gaps in our knowledge; priority areas for future research and policy making are highlighted. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100303001 E |
| Classmark | P6:SW: W6: T: DS:SJ: 3F |
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