Child Poverty in Wales, Volume 2: Speaking Truth to Power

This book provides national governments and school-communities with a model to push back against child poverty. It showcases a vision of Wales where no child grows up poor, different from the UK’s conservative neoliberal project that has wreaked havoc in its four different jurisdictions. This second volume on child poverty in Wales draws together contributing authors from across Bangor in a city-wide coalition. It is a visionary statement of support for growing a local/regional green economy designed to work for local/regional communities, buttressed by schooling and education. This ‘belonging economy’ is brought into being by the proposed Bangor Trade Winds project to reinvent maritime industries for the twenty-first century, allied to the educative Not-NEET project, the Bangor Maritime Learning Centre with its co-developed maritime learning programmes. It is rooted in local school communities as units of geographical areas across Wales, each deserving of attention because they are where a long-term strategic focus on children’s futures can be realised. They too are where local and regional regeneration can be ignited. Acknowledging Raymond Williams as Wales’s preeminent social thinker, and combining with ways of thinking about the future and of making the future, the whole is underpinned by the most practical thinking about children and the future rooted in the locality.