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21. Supporting Parents in Promoting Early Learning: The Evaluation of the Early Learning Partnership Project
It is now accepted that the link between disadvantage and achievement is cumulative: when poorer children enter primary school, despite early indications of potential, they ...

22. Flexible working: the right to request and the duty to consider
The right to request flexible working was introduced in 2003 for parents of young and disabled children, and the scope of the law was extended to carers of certain adults with ...

23. Hard Work, Hidden Lives
This report exposes a hidden Britain. It shows that employment practices attacked as exploitative in the nineteenth century are still common today. It reveals that vulnerable ...

24. Inwardness: The rise of meaningful work
The paper argues that while thinkers and writers have long wondered at the value of work to human beings beyond providing a living, the notion of 'meaningful work' is a relatively ...