abstract: 'The impact of social inequality on children has enormous implications

  for young people throughout their life journey by negatively impacting

  their health, well-being and life chances. Following the democratisation

  of Brazil, significant change resulted in improvements to the social

  welfare and health care systems, which had begun to address

  long-standing social and health problems. This article critically

  explores the implications of current retrograde right-wing populist

  political government policies for Brazilian children within the context

  of efforts to reduce income inequality and improve the life chances of

  children. While recognising the enormous challenges of poverty, racial

  discrimination, precarity and socio-economic conditions, social work has

  recognised that the enactment of the profession requires political

  engagement and action against all inequality in professional practice.

  The implications of retrogressive policy are explored, and the authors

  call upon the profession globally to recognise these structural

  socio-economic challenges and question whether social work can afford

  not to be engaged in seeking change.'
affiliation: 'Barbosa, RD (Corresponding Author), Univ Fed Espirito Santo, Vitoria,
  ES, Brazil.

  Barbosa, Rafael da Silva; Teixeira Garcia, Maria Lucia, Univ Fed Espirito Santo,
  Vitoria, ES, Brazil.

  Spolander, Gary, Robert Gordon Univ, Aberdeen, Scotland.'
author: Barbosa, Rafael da Silva and Spolander, Gary and Teixeira Garcia, Maria Lucia
author-email: 'rafael.econ@gmail.com

  g.spolander@rgu.ac.uk

  lucia-garcia@uol.com.br'
author_list:
- family: Barbosa
  given: Rafael da Silva
- family: Spolander
  given: Gary
- family: Teixeira Garcia
  given: Maria Lucia
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1332/204986021X16177218821095
eissn: 2049-8675
files: []
issn: 2049-8608
journal: CRITICAL AND RADICAL SOCIAL WORK
keywords: children; social policy; Bolsonaro; Brazil
keywords-plus: 'ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES; PRIMARY-HEALTH-CARE; INFANT-MORTALITY;

  MENTAL-HEALTH; RISK-FACTORS; WORK; CHALLENGES; TRAUMA'
language: English
month: NOV
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '79'
orcid-numbers: 'Barbosa, Rafael da Silva/0000-0002-9253-1487

  Garcia, Maria Lucia/0000-0003-2672-9310

  Spolander, Gary/0000-0003-2758-4555'
pages: 369-388
papis_id: 45d98b5e832073628fde3a7ae15b36d7
ref: Barbosa2021childrenpaying
researcherid-numbers: 'Barbosa, Rafael da Silva/AAA-8846-2022

  '
times-cited: '1'
title: 'Children: paying the price of Bolsonaro''s social policy reform in Brazil'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000728115200004
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '9'
web-of-science-categories: Social Work
year: '2021'