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Research & Education > Understanding childhood deprivation in
Ireland |Files in This Item:| |Title: ||Understanding childhood
deprivation in Ireland| |Affiliation: ||The Economic and Social
Research Institute (ESRI)| |Publisher: ||Department of Social
Protection| |Issue Date: ||Apr-2012 | |Description: ||In
Ireland, as in many European countries, the rate of poverty and
deprivation is higher for children than it is for adults. This
is important, not only because of a concern with the well-being
of children but also because childhood deprivation can have
long-term negative consequences that persist into adulthood.
This report examines childhood deprivation in Ireland in 2009 in
the context of this concern for the current well-being of
children and their future prospects. There are two further
policy issues that form a background to this study. The first is
the concern that household level measures of poverty and
deprivation may not adequately identif