Abstract
Children's Social Care and Early Intervention Policy in England
Highlights
Over the past decade, more than 30,000 children have been taken into care in England each year, in the majority of cases in order to protect them from abuse and neglect
As our main interest is in the estimated effects of Sure Start Children’s Centres (SSCC) provision, we only present the estimates of the βg terms: further estimated coefficients on time-varying and baseline Local Authorities (LAs) characteristics from selected specifications are presented in Appendix B.3
When we characterize the change in coverage ∆ccgjt2,g4 ≡ ccg2jt − ccg4jt for each (j, t)-cell we find that cells associated with recent increases in SSCC provision are associated with an increase in the relative entry of children aged 1 - 2 compared with children aged 5 - 6
Summary
More than 30,000 children have been taken into care in England each year, in the majority of cases in order to protect them from abuse and neglect. Brown & De Cao (2018) recently studied the effect of unemployment on child maltreatment at county level in the United States, finding that a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate causes a 20 percent increase in neglect.. Recent work by Sandner & Thomsen (2018) indicates that policies can make a difference: exploiting the rapid expansion of universal childcare provision in Germany between 2002 and 2014 demonstrates how public childcare provision can reduce the incidence of abuse and neglect. Other key policies are designed to support parents and children, promote child and family health, provide advice on parenting, offer financial support etc. Other key policies are designed to support parents and children, promote child and family health, provide advice on parenting, offer financial support etc. in order to reduce tensions and the development of dysfunctional family dynamics
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