Parents' roles and involvement in young adults' clinic appointments

Presentation by Lucy Stuttard at the 36th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 13 June 2013.

Council-managed personal budgets: choice and flexibility of home care for older people?

Making Research Count seminar by Parvaneh Rabiee, York, 5 June 2013.

Life story work with people with dementia

Workshop by Kate Gridley and colleagues from Dementia UK and Innovations in Dementia, Community Care Live, London, 22 May 2013.

UK child well-being has improved – but will it last?

Jonathan Bradshaw[1]

When UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre published Report Card 7 in 2007 showing the UK was at the bottom of the international league table of child well-being, UNICEF UK called a conference at Ditchley Park to discuss the findings. This resulted in the Ditchley Declaration which was supported by all the political parties. The Department of Children, Families and Schools published a Children’s Plan, more resources were found for child care, schools, child health and the child poverty strategy and there was all party support for the Child Poverty Act in 2010. We already knew from national data that things for children improved between 2004 and 2010 – out of 48 national indicators of child well-being covered in The well-being of children in the UK[2] only two had got worse and 13 showed no clear trend.

SPRU Annual Report for 2012 now available

This year's report highlights: 

* life story work with people with dementia, 

* School for Social Care Research projects 

* workforce stress and burnout, 

* systematic reviews 

* the programme of research into 'young adulthood'

* 'peer research' expertise with care experienced young people. 

As well as in-depth reports from all the projects reporting their findings in 2012. A full list of publications is available as well as all the activities that we undertake for the external community to make a positive difference to the lives of people who are disadvantaged by illness, disability, ageing, poverty or family circumstance. 

Click here to download it: http://php.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/pubs/2402/

Report highlights 'bleak' poverty levels in the UK

The Poverty and Social Exclusion (PSE) Project published its first report today. 'The Impoverishment of the UK' reveals significant levels of poverty and deprivation.

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, it is a major collaboration between a group of UK universities including York and is the largest and most authoritative study of poverty and deprivation ever conducted in the UK.

The report is the subject of a special edition of Tonight titled Breadline Britain which is broadcast on ITV at 7.30pm on 28 March.

Professor Jonathan Bradshaw's memories of the emergence of SPRU

As part of the celebrations for the University of York's 50th Anniversary year,  Professor Jonathan Bradshaw has taken part in the oral history project to record the origins of SPRU, as well as the many other highlights of his long and illustrious career as a social policy researcher. Follow this link to hear his recollections of academic life in York and the main themes of his career: child poverty, welfare rights, social policy.

https://dlib.york.ac.uk/yodl/app/audio/detail?id=york:808360

A brief retrospective of Jonathan's work is also available from the 50th Anniversary website, starting from a stall in York market giving out benefits advice, to receiving a CBE for his services to child poverty and his work on measuring the subjective well-being of children. As Jonathan recounts his research on minimum incomes has links back to an illustrious forebear who operated here in York in Victorian times:

“When social reformer Seebohm Rowntree carried out his first study of poverty in York, he used the cost of a basket of goods as measurement of the minimum income required. With the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we adapted and refined this method to develop a minimum income standard which went on to inform the campaign for a living wage, as opposed to a minimum wage”.