Co-locating advice and routine health appointments: Healthier wealthier families in East London

Join this event to hear Claire Cameron discuss the findings of a study on a health intervention programme for disadvantaged children in the East of London.

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Co-locating advice and routine health appointments: Healthier wealthier families in East London

21 Nov 2024, 12:00 – 13:00

Room G03
55-59 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0NU
United Kingdom

Child poverty and family health and wellbeing are intimately linked in the short and longer term. Child poverty affects larger families, and those with a child with a disability, and lone parents in particular, all characteristics of families disproportionately present in east London.

Health equity interventions such as Healthier Wealthier Families may have a role to play in alleviating child poverty and improving family income and mental health and wellbeing by streamlining access to money and in-kind advice. In this seminar, Claire will present the views of 55 parents and 12 professionals on the impacts of the intervention and how to make it work in areas with highly complex and intersecting disadvantages. The seminar will end with a discussion of future plans for the development of this work.

This in-person event will be particularly useful for social scientists, health scientists, and mental health professionals, and policymakers.

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Emma Bauso via Pexels.

Professor Claire Cameron

Professor of Social Pedagogy

TCRU

She is a thematic co-lead for ActEarly in Tower Hamlets, and leads studies on children and disadvantage, and children’s services. She is also Deputy Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) and founding member of the Centre for Understanding of Social Pedagogy (CUSP) at UCL IOE.