The second volume of analysis on Welsh child poverty that offers potential future solutions.
This book explores child poverty in Wales, specifically in a local school community that identified its causes and effects. It examines the challenges that child poverty poses for schooling future generations, as well as a series of local solutions that personify Wales’s social democratic social imaginary. These responses all significantly contrast those of conservative UK Westminster governments’ policies espousing neoliberal logic for a global economy. These policy agendas are invariably policy failures that play out for children and young people in their lived experiences of poverty and inequalities and that find expression in social emergencies and humanitarian disasters, as documented in this volume.
308 pages | 12 black and white scattered illustrations | 5.43 x 8.5 | © 2026
Political Science: Public Policy
Table of Contents
by Rocio Cifuentes (Wales Children’s Commissioner)
Editor’s Introduction
A city-wide coalition acting on child poverty
by Lori Beckett (Bangor University)
Section 1 Introduction
Recollections and Reconciliation
Chapter 1
Family 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: Grwp Ieuenctid Sengl Digartref Arfon) and Lisa Goodier (Bangor City Council)
Section 2 Introduction
Responding to intergenerational poverty
Chapter 4
Re-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 (Grwp 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 11
A 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