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Child Poverty and Financial Capability
Mary HillChild Poverty Officer, London Councils
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• Child poverty in London 2010
• The London wide response
• The Child Poverty Act and requirements for local authorities
• The child poverty building blocks
• Links to financial capability
• Parent’s Guide to Money
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Child poverty in London
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Child Poverty in London
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Child poverty across London
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The London wide responseLondon Child Poverty Commission – put issues ‘on the map’; evidence based final report gains cross-party support
Est. 2006
Final report
Feb 2008
Regional
Child Poverty Toolkit and briefing on Child Poverty and LAAs – to help local delivery
Late 2007 National and regional
‘London project’ within CPU and Ministerial Delivery Group
Early 2008 Regional
London Summit and London Child Poverty Pledge
Oct/Nov 2008 Regional and local
London Child Poverty Network and London Child Poverty Awards
Jan 2009/
Nov 2009
Regional and local
The Child Poverty Act 2010 National
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The Child Poverty Act 2010 and recent developments
• Places a duty on Local Authorities and statutory named partners to conduct a Child Poverty Needs Assessment and Strategy by April 2011. The joint child poverty strategy must set out the measures that the responsible local authority and each partner authority propose to take for the purpose of reducing, and mitigating the effects of, child poverty in the responsible local authority’s area.
• Best practice guidance and a toolkit will be released in the next month
• New NI116 data will be released by the end of September
• The new Coalition Government are committed to the Child Poverty Act and eradicating Child Poverty by 2020. Demonstrating the commitment to London, Sarah Teather Minister of State for Children and Families now has responsibility for the London Ministerial Delivery Group for Child Poverty.
• The findings of the Frank Field Review into Poverty and Life Chances will be released in January and will feed into the National Child Poverty Strategy. The review is likely to have a focus on early interventions and take a step away from income related poverty measures.
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The Child Poverty Building Blocks
EMPLOYMENT & SKILLS
PLACEFINANCIAL SUPPORT
LIFE CHANCES
The Strategy will need to: (a) consider what action is
needed in each area in order to meet the targets and minimise socio-
economic disadvantage, and (b) assess what
progress needs to be made by 2014
It will also need to assess: (c) which groups are most
at risk of poverty and disadvantage; and
(d) consider the impact of policy measures for each
group
Meet the 2020 Income targets
Minimise socio-economic disadvantage
for children
AT RISK GROUPS
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Links to financial capabilitywww.moneymadeclear.org.uk/parents/
Older (>55)Married or widowed
with no dependent childrenSmaller households
Good healthHome owners
Full time permanent job
HIGHER
Younger (<35)Divorced or separated
UnemployedLarger households
Lone parentsFair or poor health
Rented accommodationImmigrants
LOWER
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Contact:
Mary Hill
020 7934 9707
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