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This book reports on a wide-ranging research study into education and social exclusion in Europe. It explores differing strategies to improve educational success among disadvantaged children. The countries studied, UK, Ireland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, reflect the diversity in systems and policies that currently exist. The book assesses their relative success, and makes suggestions for good practice

Poverty and social inclusion have constantly been hot topics on political and social agendas and hence the importance of survey data availability in coping with poverty is widely recognised. Empirical evi­dence is one of the main pillars for effective policy making. In order to study the dimensions and dynamics of poverty, and hence to take aim at reducing poverty - quality, adequacy, and timeliness of data is mission-critical. Appropriate and overarching data can bring the situation of the poor into the sight of policy makers. The poorest and most marginalised people are usually unknown and governments have insufficient information about their living conditions. Nevertheless, they are expected to be under the radar of policy makers in order to achieve the Europe 2020 target (reduction by 20 million) as well as the Sustainable Development Goal of zero extreme poverty in the next 15 years (Granoff et al., 2015). Besides administrative records and censuses, national and international surveys are significant data resources for quantitative research. Although household surveys have been on the rise both in quan­tity and frequency over the past 30 years, poverty data still lags behind in coverage and comparability compared to most other socio-economic data. Serajuddin et al. (2015) use the label of 'data depriva­tion' for the data gap in key dimensions of human and social development. In our context, we refer to the data gaps in poverty research to investigate particularly vulnerable groups - or, to put it more positively, we aim to identify priorities for data collection in the coming years. Admittedly, great progress has been made across time and a variety of data sources are currently available. Nevertheless, research interests evolve as the 'information frontiers' are moving: a shift can be observed from merely descriptive research towards analysis and policy evaluation. The changes in paradigms and theoretical approaches (e.g. life course perspective, multilevel governance) as well as the availability of more ...

This article summarizes the findings of an explorative research project commissioned by the European Commission's Third Poverty Programme, on inefficiencies and undesired side-effects of targeted labour market policies. These 'pitfalls and dilemmas' are discussed in relation to three types of socioeconomic effects that are expected from these polices:

Engaging systematically with severe forms of poverty in Europe, this important book stimulates academic, public and policy debate by shedding light on aspects of deprivation and exclusion of people in absolute poverty in affluent societies. It examines issues such as access to health care, housing and nutrition, poverty related shame, and violence. The book investigates different policy and civic responses to extreme poverty, ranging from food donations to penalisation and "social cleansing" of highly visible poor and how it is related to concerns of ethics, justice and human dignity