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Society
what is society
societal changes
2020 covid pandemic
poverty in the pandemic
Jades story
Furlowed due to the pandemic, so was not earing the same amount as previously
struggling to provide a good quality of life for her children
Covid Realities (2022
There are a range of observable, probably significant, possibly long lasting social changes underway.
persistence of child poverty. although this has changed slightly living in poverty today have at least one working adult
(JRF, 2022).
greater need for more mental health support, 1.5 million children needing mental support due to isolation, loss of networks poor access to services due to the pandemic
(Young Minds, 2022).
fewer young home owners, experiencing rising housing costs and homelessness
(ONS, 2016a).
britain has a social mobility problem,(ability to choose how they want to live, not influenced by their birth.
Regional divisions and differences remain very marked;
Climate change may now be the biggest threat to children’s futures (European Union, 2016)
greater awareness of gender based violence and child abuse. crime shrunk in uk (ONS, 2016b)
technological progress, medicine etc- improving lives and wellbeing
people today are living longer, healthier lives,
Dorling (2016)
if we are to ask what would make a better society (and therefore a better place to be born and grow up in), a good place to start would be the perspective of what matters most to our happiness, what’s most important to us using ‘life events’.
he argues, things would appear in a very different light.
first-class healthcare system, a fair tax system, a living wage, good affordable housing, clean air and green spaces, safe and efficient transport, economic and job stability, a world-class education system,
although these outlooks havent different. these lifevents are now being affected by outside influences
global governance and corporations, within a globalised economy.
Society and social research
Social studies such as these, often focused on particular communities,have informed the wider society about the reality of poverty in
helped develop British welfare state and for direct financial support for children and their families that continues into the present
Social inequalities
Introduction
inequalitys damage wellbeing and also society
poverty costs everyone
as a result of poverty causes greater cost to healthcare, more money in education, criminal and justice system, child services, housing services.
(Bramley et al., 2016)
four ways in which inequality levels specifically affect childrens and young peoples wellbeing
unfair access to education and jobs
in result in miserable, unfulfilled lives,
income inequality erodes social
cohesion thereby threatens the stability of a society.
utilitarian argument
fairer society would be a more educated and healthy society will create a more productive economy from which everyone
would benefit.
Wilkinson and
Pickett (2009)
provided evidence that children subjected and vulnerable to
ill health, violence and drug abuse, obesity, mental illness,
educational performance, lack of social mobility, and large prison populations are more prevalent in less equal societies
harms societies not because of the differences in wealth, health, education or whatever, butbecause of the differences in status and autonomy that this results in.
Working towards a fairer society
Sosu and Ellis, 2014)
educational attainment gap between children from high- and lower income households in Scotland
Scottish Government, 2016, p. 4
'Many children and young people from lower-income households do significantly worse at all levels of the education system than those from better off homes.
The Scottish Attainment Challenge for 2022/23 – 2025/26 received significant investment to enable it to tackle the poverty-related attainment gap
equal opportunities
=everyone has an equal chance to become sufficiently educated and informed they can get jobs, resist exploitation and defend themselves(Bok, 2010)
core aspiration for the UK society
UK now has legislation to reduce barriers to equality of opportunity
eg. Equality Act 2010,
Early intervention in the lives of children, young people and families, carried out by a great range of practitioners and children’s services
earliest years of life are crucial to
a child’s development.
Geographical location and inequality
The Social Mobility Commission report (2020)
described social mobility as a postcode lottery
Where you grow up matters, large differences across areasadult pay of disadvantaged sons and the size
of the pay gap for sons
areas with the highest social mobility disadvantaged
individuals aged around 28 earn more than twice as much
as their counterparts in the lowest-mobility areas
low social mobility areas pay gaps 2.5 times bigger than in
areas of high social mobility
ducational achievement
accounts for almost all the earnings difference
This new ‘geography of disadvantage’ produces ‘coldspots’
impact of being born in one ONS Measuring National Well-being programme (ONS, 2014)
ncludes communities and their impact on a child’s wellbeing
(‘where we live’) as one of their seven domains of children’s wellbeing.
characterised by
homelessness
substandard
poor transport
patchy access to public services
high crime
lack of education
safe neighbourhoods
Working with unequal communities
Born in Bradford (BiB)
long-term study of a cohort of 13,500 born between March 2007 and December 2010, whose health is being tracked from
pregnancy to childhood and to adult life.
his study offers
the potential to:
assess the determinants of childhood and adult disease
ssess the impact of migration
explore the influences of pregnancy and childbirth on
subsequent health
generate and test hypotheses that have the potential to
improve health for some of the most disadvantaged in ou society
Anger at lack of opportunity and inequality is increasing.
benefits of globalisation =increasingly seen to have been accrued
disproportionately to higher earners, while others experience stagnant wages and insecure jobs (Schomberg and Milliken, 2016)
The welfare state – past, present and
future?
elfare states have been developed since the beginning of the last century as a functional response to urbanised, growingpopulations of people, mitigating the hazards of an industrial (now perhaps an increasingly post-industrial) society.
A welfare state’s contribution to society includes those key
public services vital to everyone’s wellbeing, including that of children and young people. Free education, social housing, the NHS and social security improved most people’s lives in the past and still do. However, how public services are funded, provided, purposed and accessed remains debated.