research methods

Parenting and the different ways it can affect children's lives: research evidence

Policy-makers and commentators often blame ‘bad parenting’ for children and young people’s troublesome behaviour. What can research tell us about the influence of parenting, especially the parent-child relationships in millions of ‘ordinary’ families? This report includes research based on the perspectives of mothers, fathers and children themselves. They were commissioned by the JRF to inform its own Parenting Research and Development programme.

A cycle of disadvantage? : financial exclusion in childhood : implications for consumer education of research carried out by the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University (Consumer research 4)

Report examining the experiences of and attitudes to money which children from financially excluded families bring to school and how these relate to personal finance education in schools.