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Research in this area covers several topics: childcare provision and mothers' behaviour in the labour market; child development and returns to education; and support for families with children through the benefit system.
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The SHAHRP programme is a classroom-based drug education project with a primary focus to minimize alcohol related 'harm' by empowering students to identify and deal with risks and harms associated with alcohol use
A group of brief, selective, personality-targeted interventions aimed at reducing substance (alcohol and drugs) use and misuse.
EU-DAP is a school-based project designed to prevent adolescents’ misuse of legal and illegal substances
Breaking Barriers was a Community Cohesion project that operated from 2007-2010 on a pan-London basis led by the Active Communities Network (ACN)
The Örebro Prevention program is a universal prevention program designed to decrease underage drunkenness. It has now evolved and is called Effekt.
Empowering Young People Pilots was an initiative to make funds available so that the most disadvantaged young people could access positive activities. It was part of the ten year strategy for positive youth activities launched in 2007.
The Youth Opportunity Fund and the Youth Capital Fund were established in 2006 with the aim of funding positive activities for young people across all local authorities.
Presentation made to Yorkshire & Humber Regional Conference on Child Poverty
Orazio Attanasio, Emla Fitzsimons, Camila Fernandez, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio Codina
Presentation on Early Childhood Development 25th June 2012
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 IFS researchers have shown that whether parents are married has little or no impact on children’s emotional and educational development.
In a tough economic climate IFS looks at how households are able to cope.
IFS develops data on food prices and nutrition to build capacity for policy-relevant social science research.
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