Child Poverty in Wales, Volume 2
Speaking Truth to Power
Golygydd(ion) Lori Beckett
Iaith: Saesneg
Dosbarthiad(au): Social Policy and Law, Politics
- Tachwedd 2026 · 296 tudalen ·216x138mm
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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.
Foreword
Editor’s Introduction
A city-wide coalition acting on child poverty by Lori Beckett (Bangor University)
Section 1 Introduction Recollections and Reconciliation
Chapter 1Family fortunes: inherited poverty vs inherited wealth By Eirwen Owen (Trem y Mynydd) with Shan
Robinson (Bangor University)
Chapter 2 Supporting children disengaging from learning in primary school By Iwan Davies (Ysgol Trem y Mynydd)
Chapter 3 Tapping the youth voice for ‘belonging’ in times of inequality By Graham French, Nia Young and Arwyn
Roberts (Bangor University), Anna Story (GISDA: Grŵp Ieuenctid Sengl Digartref Arfon) and Lisa Goodier (Bangor
City Council)
Section 2 Introduction Responding to intergenerational poverty
Chapter 4 Pre-launching children’s learning with maritime heritage by Dewi Jones (Cyngor Gwynedd)
Chapter 5 Further education for trades in the maritime industries By Aled Jones-Griffith, Sion Peters-Flynn, and
Gwennan Richards (Grŵp Llandrillo Menai)
Chapter 6 The Bangor Trade Winds project: higher education for the professions By Shan Robinson, Nia Young, Lori
Beckett, Edward Jones, and Martina Feilzer (Bangor University)
Section 3 Introduction Pushing back against child poverty
Chapter 7 Stakeholders tapping maritime heritage for integrated learning By Nia Sian Jones (Bangor M-sparc),
Sioned Roberts (Mantell Gwynedd), Fiona Owens (Abbey Road Centre), & Henry Chesterton (Menai Strait’s
Heritage Fleet)
Chapter 8 We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. By Elin Walker Jones
(Cyngor Gwynedd) with Jacqueline Spence, Ben Popat, Jess Arthur and Sian Carling (Calon y Glyder)
Chapter 9 Community development intersecting with city re-generation By Gwen Thirsk (Invest Local Officer) &
John Wynn Jones (Bangor City Council)
Section 4 Introduction Guarding against child poverty
Chapter 10 Scoping a vision of the future for Bangor in localism and green industries By Ann Kennedy (Môn CF),
Owen Hurcum (former Mayor of Bangor), James Wilson (Menai Seafoods), and Sara Spinks (Bangor PLUS team)
Chapter 11A politician’s response to research-informed policy advocacy By Ceri Eirlys
Chapter 12 The whole story By Graham French and Lori Beckett (Bangor University) Afterword
Awdur(on): Lori Beckett