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Living on a low income impacts the daily lives of children and their families. The experience of poverty in childhood can be highly damaging and its consequences can be felt well into adult life. Because of this, tackling child poverty is a key priority.
In 2008 the Council and its partners adopted a Child Poverty Strategy and action plan 2008-2011 to make sure that today’s children do not become the parents of poor children tomorrow. You can download our 2010 Child Poverty Needs Assessment from theattached files section below.
We have updated our strategy. Our new Child Poverty Strategy 2013-15 brings together work that is currently being undertaken by the Council and its partners. Our vision is to ensure that:
"children do not live in poverty, and that they are given the opportunity to thrive and achieve and to live safe, happy, healthy, successful and fulfilling lives."
We want to achieve this by focusing on three outcomes:
We want to:
We aim to do this by focusing on the following key priorities:
We want to help young people and parents to learn new skills and find work.
We aim to do this by focusing on the following key priorities:
We want to reduce the impact on children who live in temporary homes or in overcrowded homes.
We aim to do this by focusing on the following key priorities:
There are a number of ways to have your say:
All comments must be received by 5 June 2013
Filename | Filetype | Size |
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Draft Child Poverty Strategy 2013-15 ![]() |
603 KB | |
Stakeholder Consultation Letter ![]() |
311 KB | |
Draft Child Poverty Strategy questionnaire (easy words and pictures) ![]() |
295 KB | |
Child Poverty Act 2010 Briefing ![]() |
1350 KB | |
Child Poverty Needs Assessment 2010 ![]() |
9988 KB | |
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