The often-devastating impact that moving homes multiple times can have on the lives and education of disadvantaged young people was one of the strongest themes to emerge from a study of what it means to grow up in poverty.
A three-year research project run by The Children’s Society and the University of Bath followed the lives of 60 children in an attempt to give a “child’s-eye view” of the affect poverty has on their lives.
The resulting report, entitled Understanding Childhoods: Growing up in hard times, gives an insight into the barriers to wellbeing and education faced by these young people.
These include young people often forced to make long journeys to school, having to stay indoors in unsafe neighbourhoods and struggling to sustain important friendships after moving area or school.
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