At greatest risk
Subtitle: the children most likely to be poor
By: edited by Gabrielle Preston
Contributors: Child Poverty Action Group (Great Britain)
Publisher: Child Poverty Action Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781901698787
Subjects: Poor children; Economic policy; Social policy
Description: This edited collection focuses on the experiences of those groups identified as having the highest risk of child poverty, and looks at how to tackle the particular issues most affecting them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Child poverty : an overview  -- David Piachaud; title: The adequacy of benefits for children  -- Sue Middleton; title: Working a way out of poverty  -- Paul Dorman; title: Children in acute housing need  -- Sue Regan and Jenny Neuburger; title: Poverty among black and minority ethnic children  -- Gary Craig; title: Disabled children  -- Ruth Northway; title: Asylum seeker families  -- Pamela Fitzpatrick; title: Child poverty in larger families  -- Jonathan Bradshaw; title: Parents in prison : the impact on children  -- Janet Walker and Peter McCarthy; title: Children with disabled parents  -- Hugh Stickland and Richard Olsen; title: The social exclusion of gypsy and traveller children  -- Sarah Cemlyn and Colin Clark; title: Young people leaving care : poverty across the life course -- Mike Stein.