S8 E6: The One About Poverty

The RE Podcast

10-02-2023 • 1 hr 3 mins

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As we are facing a cost of living crisis, and as many public sector workers are striking to secure urgent funding to these essential services, it feels timely to do an episode on Poverty.

  • What is it?
  • What causes it?
  • What are the effects of it?
  • What are the solutions?
  • How do we best teach it in our classrooms and how do we deal with it in our schools?

I think this episode will relate to any educator, not just RE teachers so please share it far and wide!

I chat to Sean Harris ( @SeanHarris_NE ) who is a trust improvement lead, educator, journalist and author and who is currently doing a PHd related to poverty and Louisa Harrop an advisor to the Litchfield Diocese.


  • Marmot et al: Build Back Fairer: Covid-19, Marmot Review, The Health Foundation, 2021.
  • McLaughlin, Sheridan & Lambert: Childhood adversity and neural development: Deprivation and threat as distinct dimensions of early experience, Neuroscience and Biobehavorial Reviews (47), 2014.
  • Noble, Houston & Brito: Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents, Nature Neuroscience (18), 2015: https://go.nature.com/3nKTO0K
  • Raizada, Richards, Meltzoff & Kuhl: Socioeconomic status predicts hemispheric specialisation of the left inferior frontal gyrus in young children, Neuroimage (40,3), 2008.
  • Rowland: Addressing educational disadvantage in schools and colleges: The Essex Way, Unity Research School & Essex County Council, 2021: https://bit.ly/3AlHHMz
  • SecEd Podcast: Tackling the consequences of poverty, June 2021: https://bit.ly/3cUETeH
  • Wagmiller: The temporal dynamics of childhood econom

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