Two new reports for Childhood Studies students to use

I have been asked by Dr. Marj Jeavons, the Assistant Dean responsible for Childhood Studies to highlight two new reports which may be of use to students. The first report was published in November by the Centre for Social Justice, and assesses the early years childcare picture in terms of affordability and complexity, and aims to make recommendations for changes which will benefit the most disadvantaged children, for whom in the era of austerity and universal credit, high quality early years chilcare is often difficult to access. https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/core/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CSJJ6068-Childcare-Report-181127.pdf The second report was published in September by the Social Metrics Commission. This proposes a new measure of poverty to try and capture groups in society that are often excluded from current measures of poverty. It also uses metrics such as childcare and disability costs which were not previously considered by other calculations. https://socialmetricscommission.org.uk/MEASURING-POVERTY-FULL_REPORT.pdf