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What Would a Society Look Like Where Children’s Life Chances Were Really Fair?
Gideon Calder 
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, Volume: 33, Issue: 6, Pages: 655 - 666
Swansea University Author:
Gideon Calder
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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/0269094218803553
Abstract
A critical analysis of the prominence and significance of the term 'fair life chances' in recent UK policy, focusing on problems of definition and measurement, and proposing a plural measure. The article highlights three policy areas an appropriate commitment to tackling which is necessary...
| Published in: | Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit |
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| ISSN: | 0269-0942 1470-9325 |
| Published: |
Sage
2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45236 |
| Abstract: |
A critical analysis of the prominence and significance of the term 'fair life chances' in recent UK policy, focusing on problems of definition and measurement, and proposing a plural measure. The article highlights three policy areas an appropriate commitment to tackling which is necessary (though not sufficient) for the promotion genuinely fair life chances for children: poverty, childcare, and the configuration of opportunities. The overall argument of the article is that a commitment to making life chances fairer requires a considerably more substantial change of policy direction than the term’s recent handling in political discourse would imply. |
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| Keywords: |
childcare, children, fairness, life chances, poverty, social justice |
| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
| Issue: |
6 |
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655 |
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666 |