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CHILD POVERTY Resources, articles, toolkits and links to useful information and statistics to help inform schools' efforts to address child poverty issues.
A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of Disadvantage and Transforming Families' Lives The coalition government’s national Child Poverty Strategy sets out its new approach to tackling poverty from 2010 up to 2020. This document sets out what it proposes to do between 2011 and 2014. Strengthening families, encouraging responsibility, promoting work, guaranteeing fairness and supporting the most vulnerable people are central to the strategy. It is based on the Child Poverty Act 2010, which set income targets for 2020 and a duty to minimise socio-economic disadvantage.
Trying to get by: Consulting with children and young people on child poverty This consultation by NFER and the Children's Commissioner found many young people have a range of opinions that need to be heard.
Eradicating child poverty This link takes you to a Department for Education list of documents related to child poverty.
Child Poverty Strategy A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of Disadvantage and Transforming Families' Lives
Pockets of Poverty: The challenge for schools with small proportions of FSM pupils A free booklet on frameworks for pupils on free school meals, particularly when they form a relatively small part of the school population.
End Child Poverty by 2020 Key facts, figures, policy information and ideas about getting involved in the fight to end child poverty in the UK by 2020.
Useful policy briefings about child poverty CPAG is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of child poverty in the UK and for a better deal for low-income families and children. You will find useful documents and guidance about welfare benefits and tax credits under the Publications tab on this site.
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2010 This report by Anushree Parekh, Tom MacInnes and Peter Kenway (Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute) focuses on the eighteen month recession of 2008 and 2009. It shows there are 2.1 million impoverished young people in homes where parents work. It uses official government data, using 50 poverty indicators and covers a range of issues from low income, worklessness and debt to ill-health, poor education and problems in communities. The report is complemented by a The Poverty Site, which provides updates to graphs, more analysis and links to other relevant sites.
Children in workless households This is one of the many useful pages on the Poverty Site.
Schools: tackling child poverty & social disadvantage through a community focus This ContinYou Cymru guide to how schools can start on this issue also contains case studies from Wales that can be applied elsewhere.
We can't afford to wait until they reach school age Frank Field MP, head of the Independent Review on Poverty and Life Chances, gives his opinion on how to help disadvantaged children.
Relative poverty across Scottish Local Authorities An August 2010 publication with official figures from the Scottish government about the distribution of income and relative poverty across Scotland.
Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities Unicef's blog on all things related to child poverty.
Growing Unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries A 2008 report on poverty with emphasis on younger generations and possible methods of tackling the problem.
The links between shame and poverty Article on a new major study that hopes to help encourage anti-poverty policies around the world to focus on human dignity.
The new welfare system overhaul An article looking at the rearrangements in the fight against poverty and what it means for children and families.
Reaching the people that others can't Suzanne Barnes looks at what community focused schools in Wales can offer to the battle to end child poverty. (This is an article from Schools ETC magazine, May 2009.)
Families living in poverty Imagine having less than £10 per day per person to buy everything you need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport. Find out more about Barnardo’s work with UK families living in poverty.
Ending poverty by paying the poor An NY Times article looking at the conditional cash transfer systems being employed in Mexico and Brazil that are making vast leaps in narrowing inequality.