This website has been designed to help local practitioners, policy makers, managers and strategists to develop local responses to reducing child poverty in Wales. It provides a toolkit, setting out a process for the work and giving guidance on each step of the way.
Child Poverty Solutions - Wales, is produced by Save the Children and the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA), with support from the Welsh Assembly Government. Many of our partners were involved in providing information for the toolkit. To ensure that the site is relevant to local government and their partners we have consulted widely and undertaken dedicated work with two selected Councils, Gwynedd and Rhonnda Cynon Taff.
How to use the toolkit
The toolkit sets out a policy process for developing a local approach to reducing child poverty. At each stage, guidance and advice can be found by clicking on the links. Material may be copied and used as required which can be adapted to meet local requirements.
We recommend you work through the 8 steps of the Policy process.
The site has been structured so that navigation through the material is as simple as possible. The website contains a large amount of resource material that supports local action and the steps needed to reduce child poverty.
- Solutions - a series of child poverty briefings, aimed at departments (e.g. housing) which will provide your service area with practical advice on local action to reduce child poverty.
- Learning from practice - a database of examples on how others are responding to the challenge of reducing child poverty.
- Indicators - measures of local child poverty, which will to help analyse the local issues and prioritise action.
- Elected member area - to support local Councillors to drive forward positive changes for the poorest children in their area.
- Research and resources - for toolkits, self assessments, policy proofing, research, child poverty impact assessments and training opportunities.
- Forum - to discuss and share knowledge about child poverty and local action.