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Understand how the social, economic and cultural environment can impact on the outcomes of life chances of children and young people
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Click to open an activity sheet containing tasks for you to read and complete.If you have any questions you should contact your trainer who will be able to offer guidance.
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‘Disadvantage, behaviour and cognitive outcomes: Longitudinal analysis from age 5 to 16’ from the Early Intervention Foundation.
‘Child poverty’ from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
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Evidence Opportunities
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Click to read this paper by White J. ‘Children’s social circumstances and educational outcomes’. Edinburgh: NHS Health Scotland; 2018 to find out more about how the circumstances in which children and young people are born, grow up and learn contribute to inequalities in educational outcomes.
Click on the icon opposite to visit the website Kids Development, which contains some useful pages about external factors affecting children’s development.
Click on the link to read ‘Child poverty - the facts’ from the National Education Union.
Conduct your own research into the work of modern psychologists Sir Michael Rutter and Colin Blakemore. What do you think of their views? Do you think that ‘nature’ or ‘nurture’ is the most dominant factor in a child’s development? Give examples and use observations to support your views.
This article from Public Health Scotland is from the Child poverty overview’ and it looks at ‘Impact of child poverty’.
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