Poverty can affect anyone. Unfortunately all over the world poverty is an enormous issue for people and families. This essay will be focusing on the effect of poverty for children and what people can do to help support. To do there’s a need to look at what poverty is, how it effects the people and families, employment statuses, and what schools, teacher, state and Australian governments can do to positively affect/help children going through the impacts of poverty.
So what is poverty? Poverty is defined by the oxford dictionaries, “The state of being extremely poor”. However according to Eric Jenson (Jenson, 2009, pg.6) there is several types of poverty;
• Situational poverty- Caused by a sudden loss or crisis
• Generational poverty- Poverty …show more content…
Isolation and exclusion. Due to their low and social economic status their social life can be affected, not being able to socialise out of the house. Longer-term impacts. The biggest impact is on to the children of the people going through poverty. Children often have a poorer school performance. Ahmed later says that, “In extremely poor conditions parents willingly induce their children in to the labour market which exposes children to many risks, such as sexual and physical abuse.” (Ahmed, 2005, pg. 2 …show more content…
They offer programs like, finical budgeting advice for parents, helplines, and children protection services. This services support families with dealing struggling with poverty.
Teachers and schools have a duty of care for every student that walks into their school and classroom. Apart of this duty of care is to observe and acknowledge signs of poverty that students show. If the signs of poverty are there the teacher should first talk to the students to check if there is no other reason for these signs being shown. After that the teacher can either try or make contact with the parents and/or make a mandatory reporting form to document the student’s issues and send it to social services.
Schools and teachers can run numerous programs that help support children who are going through school while dealing with poverty. It’s also important to note that students shouldn’t feel signalled out by the programs that are run. Students could feel really embarrassed about needing the help and that could lead to students not participating. Therefore, creating programs that don’t signal them out children is important. The following is examples of programs that can be used in
So what is poverty? Poverty is defined by the oxford dictionaries, “The state of being extremely poor”. However according to Eric Jenson (Jenson, 2009, pg.6) there is several types of poverty;
• Situational poverty- Caused by a sudden loss or crisis
• Generational poverty- Poverty …show more content…
Isolation and exclusion. Due to their low and social economic status their social life can be affected, not being able to socialise out of the house. Longer-term impacts. The biggest impact is on to the children of the people going through poverty. Children often have a poorer school performance. Ahmed later says that, “In extremely poor conditions parents willingly induce their children in to the labour market which exposes children to many risks, such as sexual and physical abuse.” (Ahmed, 2005, pg. 2 …show more content…
They offer programs like, finical budgeting advice for parents, helplines, and children protection services. This services support families with dealing struggling with poverty.
Teachers and schools have a duty of care for every student that walks into their school and classroom. Apart of this duty of care is to observe and acknowledge signs of poverty that students show. If the signs of poverty are there the teacher should first talk to the students to check if there is no other reason for these signs being shown. After that the teacher can either try or make contact with the parents and/or make a mandatory reporting form to document the student’s issues and send it to social services.
Schools and teachers can run numerous programs that help support children who are going through school while dealing with poverty. It’s also important to note that students shouldn’t feel signalled out by the programs that are run. Students could feel really embarrassed about needing the help and that could lead to students not participating. Therefore, creating programs that don’t signal them out children is important. The following is examples of programs that can be used in