Social Exclusion among families with children
About this study
Social exclusion is about more than income poverty. Read our new
report looking into this
here and our key findings from the report here.
Social exclusion's also about what can happen when a person or an
area has a combination of linked problems, such as: unemployment;
discrimination; poor skills; low incomes; poor housing; high crime
and family breakdown.
These problems are linked and mutually reinforcing, but until now
there hasn't been alot of research on multiple disadvantage.
This report
uses secondary analysis of the Families and Children Study
(FACS) to understand the combinations of disadvantages that
families face and to identify the types of families most at risk of
social exclusion.
Read Matt's NatCen blog here.
Potential policy impact
Our findings suggest a number of directions for policy.
Understanding how different disadvantages cluster among vulnerable
families, and the types of families most at risk, can assist public
services to better target and prioritise their services.
Tailored, whole-family approaches that address the diverse
problems experienced by both parents and children are needed. These
families use a variety of public services, and policy makers and
service providers should consider coordinating services to address
the full range of need among such families.
Methods
This study uses data from the Families and Children Study
(FACS) to explore multiple disadvantage among families with
children.
Eighteen indicators of disadvantage are constructed from the data,
ranging from income poverty to lack of social contact to
overcrowded accommodation.
FACS is a series of
annual surveys that investigate the lives of British families with
dependent children. It is a panel study, which means that it
returns to interview the same families year after year, and is
particularly suitable to observe dynamic behaviour and
experiences.
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