Section 3: Social inequalities
Why ACE's matter
ACEs are situations which lead to an elevated risk of children and young people experiencing damaging impacts on health, or other social outcomes, across the life course. (Tower Hamlets ACES and social injustice (opens new window))
In general, those children who experience ACE's are more likely to have had a parent who has also experienced ACE's. This perpetuation of disadvantage from one generation to the next contributes to societal inequalities as it places an extra burden on those children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.
"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children" Nelson Mandela (Nobel Peace Prize,1993)