"Using financial inclusion to tackle child poverty: what works?"

Julie Wilson –Success DoncasterMike Page – Doncaster West Development Trust

•Originally developed to promote enterprise initiatives included in the LEGI bid

•Over the last 18 months Success Doncaster has developed into the broader Work, Skills and Enterprise programme

•Additional funding obtained through Working Neighbourhoods Fund, Future Jobs Fund and ERDF

•Key aims - raise skill levels, encourage growth of existing businesses, support new business start ups and assist people into direct sustainable employment

Success Doncaster

Financial Inclusion •Procurement of a Financial Inclusion Contract

•Recruitment of a Finance Support Co-Ordinator

•Chair of Doncaster’s Financial Inclusion Group

Vehicles to Family Engagement • Community Roadshows - Secondary schools,

Primary Schools, Children’s Centres• Financial Inclusion Group Partners & Success

Doncaster Contractors• Through St Leger Homes

Community Roadshows• Weekly Roadshows• In Schools and Children Centres• Key Partners Present• Incentives• Children, Parents and Grandparents

St Leger Homes of Doncaster• Pre- tenancy support• Money Management• Encouragement to access basic banking – credit

union• Furniture packages • 1-2-1 advice