Promoting resilience and protective factors in the Children's Fund: supporting children and young people's pathways towards social inclusion?

Evans, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4599-5270 and Pinnock, K. (2007) Promoting resilience and protective factors in the Children's Fund: supporting children and young people's pathways towards social inclusion? Journal of Children and Poverty, 13 (1). pp. 21-36. ISSN 1469-9389 doi: 10.1080/10796120601171211

Abstract/Summary

As part of the broader prevention and social inclusion agenda, concepts of risk, resilience, and protective factors inform a range of U.K. Government initiatives targeted towards children and young people in England, including Sure Start, the Children's Fund, On Track, and Connexions. This paper is based on findings from a large qualitative dataset of interviews conducted with children and their parents or caregiver who accessed Children's Fund services as part of National Evaluation of the Children's Fund research.1 Drawing on the notion of young people's trajectories, the paper discusses how Children's Fund services support children's and young people's pathways towards greater social inclusion. While many services help to build resilience and protective factors for individual children, the paper considers the extent to which services also promote resilience within the domains of the family, school, and wider community and, hence, attempt to tackle the complex, multi-dimensional aspects of social exclusion affecting children, young people, and their families.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/3500
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/10796120601171211
Divisions	Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Department of Geography and Environmental Science Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science Science > School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science > Human Environments
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