Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: changing the conversation across the UK in child protection?

Featherstone, B, Morris, K, Daniel, B, Bywaters, P, Brady, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3431-6543, Bunting, L, Mason, W and Mirza, N, 2019. Poverty, inequality, child abuse and neglect: changing the conversation across the UK in child protection? Children and Youth Services Review, 97, pp. 127-133. ISSN 0190-7409

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Abstract

This article explores the evidence on the relationship between poverty, inequality and child abuse and neglect. It argues for the importance of developing further work on the implications of inequality, in particular, as this is a significantly underdeveloped area of study despite compelling evidence of its pertinence to the harms that children and their families experience. Drawing from the findings of a quantitative study that an 'inverse intervention law' seemed to be in operation with systematic unequal implications for children, the conceptual thinking behind a new qualitative study to explore why and how this law operates is explained. The implications for policy and practice are discussed in order to promote further debate about what is often a neglected or invisible aspect of child protection.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Children and Youth Services Review
Creators:	Featherstone, B., Morris, K., Daniel, B., Bywaters, P., Brady, G., Bunting, L., Mason, W. and Mirza, N.
Publisher:	Elsevier BV
Date:	February 2019
Volume:	97
ISSN:	0190-7409
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.06.009 DOI S0190740917304425 Publisher Item Identifier 1279827 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	05 Feb 2020 15:11
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2020 15:11
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39171

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