Project:
editing full-length child poverty report into shorter versions for Save the Children
Scotland
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charity Save the Children commissioned a major two-year study into the impact
of poverty on young people's access to services in Scotland. The full, 120+ page
report - 'Serving Children?' - was produced by researchers from the universities
of Glasgow and Strathclyde and completed in early Spring 2007. I was then commissioned
to edit two 6 page report versions - one to maximise the communication of key
findings to adults, the other to target young people aged 10 to 14.
Objective:
To make the contents of a complex and detailed academic report accessible
to a more general adult audience and the 10 to 14 age group upon which the report
focuses. This required a shift in tone of voice towards a more conversational
style for both versions, with short sentences and appropriate vocabulary especially
important for the young people's edition 'Access All Areas?'
WHAT’S
THE REPORT ABOUT - AND WHY DID WE PRODUCE IT? Access
All Areas? is a young people’s edition of the Serving Children? report -
a large project that explores how young people see and use ‘services’
in their lives.
‘Services’ in this case includes things such
as healthcare, leisure facilities (parks and play areas - for example) and shops.
The
study was designed to explore whether young people who are less well off lose
out by not being able to take advantage of services as much as those from better
off backgrounds.
It’s not, of course, the first time that anyone has
studied how poverty affects young people.
Previous work, though, has measured
the actual number affected or listened to what adults think.
This study
is important because it focuses on gathering young people’s opinions on the
range of services they use – what helps them and what difficulties they face.
We
hope that our report will help councils and other organisations plan better services
that more young people can benefit from - especially those from less well off
homes.
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charity Save the Children commissioned a major two-year study into the impact
of poverty on young people's access to services in Scotland. The full, 120+ page
report - 'Serving Children?' - was produced by researchers from the universities
of Glasgow and Strathclyde and completed in early Spring 2007. I was then commissioned
to edit two 6 page report versions - one to maximise the communication of key
findings to adults, the other to target young people aged 10 to 14.
Objective:
To make the contents of a complex and detailed academic report accessible
to a more general adult audience and the 10 to 14 age group upon which the report
focuses. This required a shift in tone of voice towards a more conversational
style for both versions, with short sentences and appropriate vocabulary especially
important for the young people's edition 'Access All Areas?'