Sentences with phrase «head of the child poverty»

When Labour's Kate Green asked her first question to Cameron he began his answer by praising her «incredible work» as head of the Child Poverty Action Group...

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In 2011, children living in female - headed homes with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6 %.

Early Head Start (EHS) is the infant - toddler portion of the Head Start program, serving pregnant women and families with children under age 3 with incomes below the poverty line.

ENDS • For more information, please contact Imran Hussain, Head of Policy, on 07816909302 • CPAG is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low - income families and children.

[23, summary] Imran Hussain Head of Policy, Rights & Advocacy Child Poverty Action Group 94 White Lion Street London N1 9PF (Main: 020 7837 7979 ü http://www.cpag.org.uk

Imran Hussain, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, responds to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on PovPoverty Action Group, responds to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Povpoverty by Oxfam and Church Action on PovertyPoverty...

«Overall we have considerable reservations about the proposals, both in terms of their potentially negative impacts, and their potential to improve the situation of lone parents and their families, and to reduce child poverty,» said Sir Richard Tilt, head of the committee.

Responding to Walking the Breadline, a new report published today on UK food poverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, Imran Hussainpoverty by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, Imran HussainPoverty, the Head of Policy for Child Poverty Action Group, Imran HussainPoverty Action Group, Imran Hussain, said:

DB: «The 50 councils worst affected by government cuts will face a reduction of # 160 per head on average, despite the fact that about a third of their children already live in poverty.»

Sally Copley, Save the Children's head of poverty, responds to the government's announcement that it will expand childcare payments to an extra 80,000 families:

I led the development of the scientific standing of the Department of Child Health, with wide ranging innovations including further studies on the endocrine control of blood sugar concentrations to the influences of poverty and deprivation on the prevention and management of serious head injury in children.

Trauma Smart is an early - childhood trauma intervention model that addresses the effects of complex trauma — such as community and family violence, poverty, illness, and homelessness — for preschool - age children, their families, and the Head Start teachers who care for them.

In that year, Sargent Shriver, a holdover from the Kennedy administration who became one of the chief architects of Johnson's War on Poverty, developed the idea for Head Start from his involvement in programs for retarded children (his wife, Eunice, would later found the Special Olympics).

A snapshot survey of a sample of heads, teachers and school support staff who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) reveals the extent to which poverty is damaging the educational opportunities for children from poor families.

If true, this sets the stage for a cycle of poverty in which mother - headed families produce boys who go on to father their own children outside marriage.

The result is that Head Start has served only about 40 percent of eligible children who live right above the poverty line, he added.

Through this NPRM, we intend to carry Head Start forward into the 21st century to ensure all Head Start children receive sufficient exposure to high quality services that will promote school success and reinvigorate the promise of Head Start envisioned in 1965 as a means to help end the effects of poverty child by child, community by community.

As its name implies, the Head Start program was developed to enhance the experiences of children in low - income families prior to school entry, with the goal of alleviating the negative effects of growing up in poverty.

Initiated in 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty,» Head Start was created out of concern for the well - being of children in low - income families based on evidence that they were less likely to succeed in school than their more advantaged peers.

Since its beginning in 1965 as a part of the War on Poverty, Head Start «s goal has been to boost the school readiness of low - income children.

For a half - century, our nation has focused on school - readiness programs such as Head Start as the best way to help low - income children escape the cycle of poverty.

Ninety - eight percent of residents are black, about half live below the federal poverty line, and nearly 90 percent of families with children are headed by single women, according to initiative data.

Head Start was created as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «War on Poverty» agenda to help children from disadvantaged families become as school ready as their more affluent peers.

Policymakers quickly realized, however, that an eight - week intervention was not enough to overcome the disadvantages children suffered after four years of poverty, so Head Start was converted into a full - time program that served fewer students.

Between the intellectually schizophrenic claptrap on the No Child Left Behind Act from American Enterprise Institute scholar Rick Hess and Linda Darling - Hammond, Duke's Helen Ladd and Edward Fiske defense of the Poverty Myth of Education, and the otherwise thoughtful Whitney Tilson's misguided criticism of Republican and conservative school reformers, I am ready to head out on my vacation to relatively - sane American Ozarks, where I can be reminded once again that the Beltway is La - La Land without a tan.

Of course, one could also address overpopulation head - on: proven methods include empowering women, better education, universal access to contraceptives and family planning, reducing poverty, and mitigating child mortality & # 8212with all of these non-draconian, non-compulsory methods bringing additional benefits to the community and the worlOf course, one could also address overpopulation head - on: proven methods include empowering women, better education, universal access to contraceptives and family planning, reducing poverty, and mitigating child mortality & # 8212with all of these non-draconian, non-compulsory methods bringing additional benefits to the community and the worlof these non-draconian, non-compulsory methods bringing additional benefits to the community and the world.

A focused program to reduce abusive head trauma, for example, has shown that providing vivid information and requesting a commitment from parents to refrain from shaking babies can substantially reduce child maltreatment — even when no other effort is made to address substance abuse, poverty, or the use of positive parenting principles.74

In a recent report, the Institute of Medicine identified 5 risk factors associated with the onset of depression: having a parent or other close biological relative with a mood disorder; experiencing a severely stressful event; having low self - esteem, a sense of low self - efficacy, and a sense of helplessness or hopelessness; being female; and living in poverty.39 This national study of depressive symptoms in mothers of children in kindergarten who attended a Head Start program supports the predictive validity of several of the risk factors published by the Institute of Medicine and corroborates findings from several earlier studies that examine depression in mothers of young children.

For low - income families headed by single mothers, the associations between maternal employment and children's cognitive and social development tend to be neutral or positive, but much of this difference is a function of pre-existing differences between mothers who are or are not employed.2, 3,4,5 The effects of maternal employment on children's development also depend on the characteristics of employment — its quality, extent and timing — and on the child's age.2, 6,7 On the other hand, poverty has consistently negative associations with young children's development, but here, too, there is considerable controversy about the causal role of income per se, as opposed to other correlates of poverty.8, 9,10,11,12,13

Programs may also serve up to an additional 35 % of children from families whose incomes are above the Poverty Guidelines, but below 130 % of the poverty line if the program can ensure that certain conditions described in the Head Start Act have bePoverty Guidelines, but below 130 % of the poverty line if the program can ensure that certain conditions described in the Head Start Act have bepoverty line if the program can ensure that certain conditions described in the Head Start Act have been met.

This reduced incidence of child care deserts in areas of concentrated poverty is likely the result of targeted public early care and education programs such as state public preschool, Head Start, and Early Head Start.

There are also state and federally funded programs targeted to low - income children, but they are not reaching all eligible children: Head Start reaches at best 50 percent of the eligible population, and only 47 percent of children living below the poverty line are enrolled in preschool.

As research across neuroscience, developmental psychology, and economics demonstrates, early social - emotional, physical, and cognitive skills beget later skill acquisition, setting the groundwork for success in school and the workplace.15 However, an analysis of nationally representative data shows that 65 percent of child care centers do not serve children age 1 or younger and that 44 percent do not serve children under age 3 at all.16 Consequently, child care centers only have the capacity to serve 10 percent of all children under age 1 and 25 percent of all children under age 3.17 High - quality child care during this critical period can support children's physical, cognitive, and social - emotional development.18 Attending a high - quality early childhood program such as preschool or Head Start is particularly important for children in poverty or from other disadvantaged backgrounds and can help reduce the large income - based disparities in achievement and development.19

Head Start reaches nearly 1 million children across the country, the vast majority of whom are from families with incomes at or below the federal poverty level.

Head Start and Early Head Start are federally funded programs that provide comprehensive early childhood services to children up to 100 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.

20130530 NYSPEP Spring Institute with Mary McKay on Family Engagement Dr. Mary McKay, Professor and Director at McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at NYU - and Panelists - Vito Borrello, President of EPIC - Every Person Influences Children; Erika Brunelle, Family Engagement Specialist for Center for the Development of Human Services - SUNY Research Foundation; and Patty Persell, Director of NYS Head Start Collaboration Project via NYS Council on Children and Family Services.

The majority of children served by Head Start are minority children, and many live in poverty.

Cognitive skill performance among young children living in poverty: Risk, change, and the promotive effects of Early Head Start.

Millions of American children are living in poverty and are in desperate need of the opportunity for success that Head Start and Early Head Start offer.

Research on Head Start should be framed by the goal of improving the early environment and developmental opportunities of children in poverty.

In 2002, 7.8 percent of children in married - couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38.4 of children in female - headed householder families.

A Two Generation Approach to Poverty Alleviation The mission of Acelero Learning is to bring a relentless focus on positive family and child outcomes to close the achievement gap and build a better future for children, families, and communities served by the Head Start program.

The poverty rate for families with a single head of household with related children is 31 %.