Early exposure to adversity, such as abuse or neglect, is associated with poorer outcomes across social, education and health domains. Children in care (referred to as looked-after children in the UK) are a vulnerable group who experience adversity serious enough for the state to intervene in family life and place them under the supervision of child protection services within the home or, more frequently, to remove the child and place them in out-of-home care (OHC).
13 February 2019
Early exposure to adversity, such as abuse or neglect, is associated with poorer outcomes across social, education and health domains.
13 July 2016
16 July 2015
These slides were presented at a Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Conference, Clare College, Cambridge.
22 September 2010
This report examines the extent to which the aspirations, attitudes and behaviour of parents and children can help explain why poor children typically do worse at school than children from richer backgrounds. It is based on the analysis of a number of large-scale longitudinal data sources capturing groups of children in the UK from early childhood through to late adolescence.
29 March 2010
1 January 2004
The principal of horizontal equity can be interpreted as requiring that households with the same pre-transfer incomes and the same consumption needs should receive the same post-transfer incomes.
2 January 2002
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the take-up of the two major means-tested benefits that are available for working families with children in the UK: family income supplement (FIS) and housing benefit (HB).
28 November 1991
Millions of children will be returning to school this week. For many, it will be the first time that they have been in five months. The consequences of this loss of schooling will be profound, persistent and socially unjust.
1 September 2020
This paper finds differences in the age at which cognitive skills are tested accounts for the vast majority of the difference in outcomes between children who are born at different times of the year.
15 July 2014
This paper estimates the impact of a long-established pre-school nursery programme on children's nutritional status.
2 September 2013
1 November 2011
1 August 2023
We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes.
2 June 2008
This paper looks at the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes using data from Uruguay.
4 September 2006
The purpose of this report is to examine the consistency and reliability of the activityhistory data collected in the FACS. Using data from the first five waves of the FACSand from the first thirteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) as acomparison survey, carefully matched samples have been analysed to calibrate thecompleteness and consistency of the activity history data collected in the FACS andto test whether the FACS generates labour market statistics similar to the comparisonsurvey.
15 December 2005
We evaluate the effects of undergoing any early education (before the compulsory starting age of 5) and of pre-school on a cohort of British children born in 1958.
9 December 2005
We evaluate the effects of undergoing any early schooling (before the compulsory starting age of 5) and of pre-school on a cohort of British children born in 1958.
1 July 2005
1 January 2003
This commentary describes the changes to the structure of child-contingent support through the tax and benefit system since 1975. It also presents new results, which were produced to quantify explicitly the amount of government support for families with children, using representative samples of families from over the past three decades. With these data, it is possible to examine whether child-contingent support has become more or less progressive, or more or less slanted towards large families, lone-parents families or families with young children.
1 November 2002