Interdisciplinary group: disability studies, child health and community paediatrics, health inequalities, social anthropology, social policy, socio-legal studies. Disability: a complex interaction between individual characteristics, including impairments and chronic illness, and the social context. Aims to develop research and theory to enhance our understandings of: The relationship between material circumstances and the prevalence of disability; The range of factors that shape the circumstances, experiences and human rights of disabled adults and children in different national contexts; The methodological issues relating to the measurement of disability; How better data can be collected for policy, planning and professional practice. A systematic review: association between childhood disability and socio-economic disadvantage in high income countries Secondary analysis of data from the Samples of Anonymised Records for the 1991 and 2001 UK population censuses: to identify the trends in childhood disability and examine the associations between childhood disability, ethnicity, parental disability and lone parenthood after adjustment for social disadvantage. Secondary analysis of the ONS Longitudinal Study to examine: the extent to which parental disability precedes or follows caring for a disabled child; whether social disadvantage predisposes children to limiting long-term illness/disability, and if so, to what extent; how much of the social disadvantage experienced by households with children with limiting long-term illness/disability precedes or follows the onset of child disability Rahi, J., Hundt, G., Tadic, V. and Keeley, S. (in press) Identifying the content of a novel vision related quality of life questionnaire for children and young people – capturing the child’s perspective. Ophthalmology. Blackburn, C., Read, J. and Spencer, N. (2010) Prevalence of childhood disability and the characteristics and circumstances of disabled children in the UK: Secondary analysis of the Family Resources Survey. BMC Paediatrics: 10, 21. Read J., Blackburn C., Spencer N. (2010) Disabled children in the UK: a quality assessment of quantitative data sources. Child Care Health Development: 36, 1, 130-141. Broach, S., Clements, L. and Read, J. (2010) Disabled Children: a Legal Handbook. London: LAG Education and Services Trust Ltd. Spencer, N., Blackburn, C. and Read J. (2010) Prevalence and social patterning of limiting long-term illness/disability in children and young people under the age of 20 years in 2001: UK census-based crosssectional study. Child Care Health Development: 36, 4, 566-573. Blackburn, C., Read, J. and Spencer, N. (2007) Can we count them? Scoping data sources on disabled children and their households in the UK. Child: Care, Health and Development, 33, 3, 291-295.