CALL FOR EVIDENCE: POVERTY & INSTITUTIONAL CARE
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has been commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to conduct a review of evidence about poverty experienced by people held in 'institutional care' and identify effective anti-poverty strategies. We are looking at prisons, immigration detention, residential and foster care homes for children, psychiatric institutions and institutions for vulnerable adults.
We have issued a call for evidence outlined below. Please get in touch if you are working in these areas and can alert us to relevant material. The Call for Evidence is below and can be viewed online - http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/povertycallforevidence.html.
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CALL FOR EVIDENCE
Our review of evidence and policy focuses on poverty, material deprivation and social exclusion for people in institutional care. The review has been commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in order to develop its anti-poverty strategy.
Institutional care
• Prisons
• Institutions accommodating or holding immigrants
• Residential and foster care homes for children
• Psychiatric institutions (including secure facilities)
• Institutions for vulnerable adults including people with disabilities
We are interested in evidence about poverty, material deprivation, and social exclusion at the point of entry to an institution, while people are in institutions, or after they leave.
We wish to identify evidence about effective anti-poverty interventions for these groups. Our review will be international and we will be eager to see any material from countries in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand as well as the UK. We are reviewing English language material from 2000 onwards.
Priority documents
In addition to academic articles the review is collecting
• Reports
• Surveys
• Policy statements or analysis
It would be appreciated if you could share with us a copy of the material, ideally as a Word file or Adobe PDF. Any help will be gratefully acknowledged. If you have any questions we would, of course, be pleased to answer them. Please contact [log in to unmask]
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