RCT Council Wins National Award
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council has won a prestigious award for it's scrutiny work on Child Poverty.
Winning Joint Working category in the Good Scrutiny Awards RCT Council worked with Child Poverty Solutions to ensure that key Child Poverty issues are being focussed on, responded to and addressed effectively. Click here to read more.
How to Use this Toolkit
The Child Poverty Solutions website has been designed to help people working across the public sector in Wales to develop local responses to reducing child poverty.
We are currently planning a number of changes in response to the wider range of public bodies now engaging with the child poverty agenda. These changes will make your use of the website more sector specific. In the mean time the site is designed to make navigation through the material as simple as possible no matter which public body you represent.
You will find a large quantity of resources and materials that set out a process for developing a local action plan for your sector on reducing child poverty and to support you to more fully understand what it means for a child or young person to live in poverty.
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 this toolkit. To ensure that the site is relevant to the public sector we have consulted widely and undertaken dedicated work with two selected Councils, Gwynedd & Rhonnda Cynon Taff.
The Policy Context
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The Latest Policy Context in Wales
The pages here explain the policy context in which work on child poverty in Wales takes place.
Children & Young People's Plans Interim Guidance 2011 to 2014
The document outlines WAG expectations of Children and Young People's partnerships in addressing the new duty relating to the eradication of child poverty. Click here to read the draft guidance and give your feedback. Consultation closes 14/09/10
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Do You Work for a Communities First Partnership?
Did you know that the Welsh Assembly Government has published child poverty guidance for you? Click on the link if you want to read through Working with Children, Young People & Families - Tackling Child Poverty: Guidance for Communities First Partnerships. Also have a look at our 'Make it Happen' pages especially for Communities First teams, use the link or click in the blue box above.
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Children & Families (Wales) Measure
Follow the link for up to date information and a plain English interpretation of The Children & Families(Wales) Measure 2010 for public authorities in Wales.
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Child Poverty Strategy & Delivery Plan for Wales
The consultation period on the Child Poverty Strategy and Delivery Plan is now closed but you can still keep up to date with progress here.
We have also published Save the Children's response to the Child Poverty Strategy. It includes 12 key messages, comment on the Children's Rights based approach to child poverty, our position on WAG's four consultation questions and comments on the Delivery Plan by chapter. Download Save the Children's reponse here.
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The Child Povery Act 2010: A short guide
Similar to the Children & Families (Wales) Measure the Child Poverty Act places new duties on public bodies in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with regard to tackling child poverty. A plain English guide to the Child Poverty Act is available here.
The Equality Act 2010
Having recieved Royal Assent in April 2010, the Equality Act 2010 is intended to provide a new cross-cutting legislative framework to protect the rights of individuals and advance equality of opportunity for all. In essence the Act asks public bodies in the UK to conduct equality impact assessments. To find out more about how the Act will inform your child poverty work click here for the UK Government Equalities Commission or go to the Equality and Human Rights Commission for a plain English interpretation.
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Child Poverty Tools & Information
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Partnership Working in Education
Read "Working Better Together - Partnership working to improve the educational attainment of the poorest children in Wales 2010". Click the link and look in Key Documents on the right hand side of the page.
The Children and Families (Wales) Measure seeks to deliver a strategic and joined up approach to addressing child poverty.
The School Effectiveness Framework for Wales emphasises that in order to close the educational and experiential gaps and reduce poverty, schools need to work in partnership.
"Working Better Together" looks at barriers and oportunites for partnership working and makes 9 key recommendations for a way forward.
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Young People Want to Work...
From interviews with 2,048 young people aged 16-24, 76% say that finding a good job is their main priority for the future.
BUT two-fifths (39%) of those living in communities with high levels of unemployment worry they will never find a good job. One in four (25%) feel depressed as a result of living in the area, and nearly half (49%) feel they have no role models whose careers they look up to and respect.
Want to read more? Then visit the Prince's Trust web pages here.
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What is Child Poverty?
Learn more about the definition of child poverty and how it is measured here. Our Learning from Practice section and our Training Module for Elected Officials developed in partnership with the WLGA has some stories told by children and young people experiencing poverty and some ways in which people have responded.
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The Cost of Child Poverty
Click here to find out more about the costs associated with children & young people living in poverty in each Local Authority area in Wales and how much money could be saved by uplifing children and young people out of poverty in Wales.
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The Most Vulnerable Groups
Click here to find information and links to research regarding the groups of children & young people most vulnerable to living in poverty.
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Child poverty proofing or the child poverty impact assessment?
Click here if you want to know more.
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Child Poverty News
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IFS research challenges Chancellor's 'progressive Budget' claim
An End Child Poverty Campaign commissioned report was released by the Institute for Fiscal Studies yesterday.
The report highlights the disproportionate impact of the Coalition Government's emergency budget on the poorest, saying that the Government's claim that the June budget was progressive was 'not true'. Download and read the full IFS report here.
The Daily Mirror and Financial Times have also published their own views. Follow the links directly to their stories. To read the FT article you will need to register for free.
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Road Risks are Higher for Deprived Children!
Children from deprived areas are at far greater risk on the roads than those from richer areas, a UK study found.
For latest details read Child Casualties 2010; A study into resident risk of children on roads in Great Britain 2004-08 by Road Safety Analysis.
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Consumer Finance in Wales: Debt and credit use
Research conducted in March and April this year reports that over 18 per cent of Welsh adults (420,000 people) have fallen behind with meeting bills or credit repayments in the past year.
This rises to 29 per cent of younger people (18-34 year olds), around a quarter of people with long-term illnesses or disabilities (23 per cent) and over a quarter of those on lower incomes (26 per cent).
Click here to read more
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Child Poverty Solutions Phase 1 Evaluations
These reports set a good practice standard in bringing the child poverty agenda to life in the Local Authority corporate, scrutiny and on-line environments. If you represent or work in any of these fields download and use these independent reports to find out how our pilot projects were delivered, what impact they have had and how an awareness of child poverty should inform your own work.
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National Child Poverty Conference 2010
The evaluation report of the National Child Poverty Conference is available for download here.
The afternoon conference workshop focussed on Child Poverty Solutions. In order to make sure the project stays fresh and relevant we asked the delegation 4 questions designed to give us their impressions of Child Poverty Solutions so far and offer a steer on the future of the project. You can see the themes and evidence that came out of the consultation here. We will use the information to help set our strategic direction for Child Poverty Solutions going forward.
If you have any other comments or feedback for us please do not hesitate to get in touch with Ross Chamberlain, your project co-ordinator using the details in Contact Us.
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