It examines the attitudes to children over the past 200 years and howthese still shape social policy. It reviews the historical links betweenthe social, economic and ideological conditions that led to socialpolicy research and the links to changes in policy.
The book is split into five chapters. After an introduction, the secondcharts the development of empirical research and how the use ofstatistics and the social survey quantified child poverty. The wayresearch has had an impact on social policy has much to do with thehistorical context: from the development of the New Poor Law in 1834 tothe "re-discovery of poverty" in the 1960s, and the present Government'suse of data in its anti-poverty strategy.
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