Sally Knock

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Tackling child poverty locally new expectations
- new support

• Sally Knock Lorraine Reid, Child Poverty Unit
• Richard Williams, Cornwall Council (Child Poverty
  Beacon)/C4EO
• Michelle Kennedy, Government Office Child Poverty
  Network/C4EO
• Daniel Hallam, Department for Communities and
  Local Government

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• Our goal is a fairer society where no child life
  is blighted by poverty

• Its not fair for individuals
• Effects are felt throughout communities,
  straining local services
• It makes bad business sense with costs to
  individuals, communities and the exchequer in the
  region of 25bn per year

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Progress has been made but more must be done
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Ending child poverty means raising incomes and
improving outcomes
Working families should see a clear path out of
poverty
Life chances Every child, whatever their
background can achieve the five ECM outcomes
Income
Outcomes
Those who cant work receive the practical and
financial support they need to lift them out of
poverty
Communities Families live in safe, cohesive and
prosperous communities where children can thrive
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Reaching this goal means tackling all the causes
and consequences of child poverty, and much of
this depends on high quality local services
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We can only achieve eradication through action of
all local services

• Child poverty is experienced in every locality
  across the country
• Some authorities have already made child poverty
  a priority and made excellent progress
• However the approaches taken and progress made is
  variable
• We need to renewed approach to ensure that all
  authorities and delivery partners step up to the
  challenge of our 2020 goal
• Legislation can send a clear message that ending
  child poverty must be everybodys business

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The Child Poverty Bill will drive progress at a
national and local level
Higher expectations
a clear vision and definition of success
More accountability
a stronger accountability framework for all
involved in tackling child poverty

• a clear message that more is needed than central
  Government leadership and national action

Everybodys business
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The Bill will place new duties on local partners

• Duty on local authorities and their partners to
  co-operate to reduce child poverty in their area
• Duty to carry out a child poverty needs
  assessment and produce a local child poverty
  strategy
• Duty for local authorities to take their duty to
  reduce child poverty into account when preparing
  or revising their Sustainable Communities
  Strategy
• Power to issue guidance on how these duties
  should be performed

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The consultation gave local services a chance to
feedback on the issues they face.

• Lack of knowledge and info expertise/good
  practice/data
• Conflicting messages and policies from Whitehall
• Difficulties securing local partnership
  working and ownership
• Specific regional issues eg. high costs in London
• Shortage of suitable, affordable housing
• Complexity of benefits
• Difficulties in increasing skills and securing
  sustained employment

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So we are developing a core offer of support
Child Poverty Unit Website
Data Tool
Pilot info
CPU updates
Research
Online Resources
Coordinated Offer of Support for Local Partners
Child Poverty Toolkit
C4EO Support Sector Specialists
active personalised support
Gov Offices
Take Up Taskforce Report and Materials
Beacons
And more
Good Practice Examples
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An example of good local delivery tackling child
poverty in One Cornwall
Cornwall Local Area Agreement
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Breaking the cycle ensuring poverty in
childhood does not translate into poor
experiences and outcomes.

• Develop personalised family support as part of
  an integrated early intervention strategy.
• Integrated Family Support Programme in
  partnership with the CIOS PCT.
• Increase Family Learning
• Childcare Sufficiency (LA Pathfinder for Flexible
  Free Childcare Entitlement and Single Formula
  Development.)
• Disabled Childrens Access to Childcare (DCATCH)
  Pathfinder
• Expand the extended services programme
• Child Poverty and effective response embedded
  into Common Core workforce development
  Training.
• Narrow the gap
• Reduce NEETS

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Supporting more families into work that pays,
ensuring they have the support needed to progress.

• Cornwall Works Plus support for disadvantaged
  communities of need and place, skills for
  employability, overcoming barriers and workplace
  based and employer focussed support.
• Cornwall Works for Social Enterprise
  developmental experiences and sustainable work
  through social enterprises and intermediate
  labour market programmes.
• Cornwall Works for Learning Disabilities aiming
  to provide a pathway to sustainable employment
  for people with learning disabilities.
• Virtual Ward targeting and Care Pathway
  development in partnership with Prime Providers.
• Reduction in the number of children growing up in
  benefit dependent Households in Cornwall.
• Reduction in Gap in Employment Rates.

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Ensure financial and material support is
responsive to families situations.

• Promote and improve the local take up of benefits
  and tax credits.
• Effective linkages between CYP and Inclusion
  Cornwall - Financial Inclusion Strategy
• Pilot Real Choices Enabling Funds to overcome
  barriers to employment and training and ease the
  transition into employment.
• Delivery of free early education and childcare
  pilot to the most disadvantaged two year olds and
  their families.

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Tackling deprivation in communities, ensuring
that a childs environment supports them
to thrive.

• Address the number of vulnerable households with
  children living in non decent homes.
• Enable universal access to good quality housing
  advice for young people
• Delivery of the Cornwall Play Strategy
• Referral routeways embedded to enable additional
  Home Health Energy Efficiency Measures for
  Families.
• Pilot Child Poverty and Social Housing Care
  Pathway development.
• Deliver Real Choices Pilot Family Getaway
  Programme
• Development of Integrated Community approaches
  through Childrens Community Network
  Partnerships.

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Government Offices Part of the Coordinated
Offer

• What do Government Offices do?
• Act for Government in our regions and localities
• Act for our regions and localities in Government
• Build partnerships and delivering in partnership
• Negotiate Local Area Agreements
• Advising Government on bids for the Beacon
  Councils
• Identify local issues and feedback to influence
  emerging policy development.
• Work with local authorities to improve performance

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The Government Office Child Poverty Network

• Intelligence and data nationally and locally on
  child poverty
• Support and challenge to LAs and LSPs to develop
  child poverty strategies and delivery plans
• Making links across Government to improve
  delivery and influence policy
• Dissemination of good practice and sector support
  
• Joint work with RIEPS and RDAs to increase and
  support capacity
• Development and negotiation of child poverty
  performance indicators

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The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes
(C4EO) Part of the Coordinated Offer

• Who are C4EO?
• Independent consortium sponsored by DCSF
• Developed for the children's sector to gather and
  share best practice and knowledge on what works
• Offers tailored support to local authorities,
  Children's Trusts and Local Strategic Partners
• Work programme 8 themes early years
  disability vulnerable children child poverty
  safeguarding youth schools and communities
  families, parents carers

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The C4EO Child Poverty Package

• Thematic Advisory Group
• Knowledge reviews including validated local
  practice
• Summaries of key messages for targeted audiences
• Knowledge workshops in the autumn
• Sector specialists offering tailored support
  using knowledge of what works
• A progress mapping tool containing data that can
  be manipulated locally and used to assess
  progress and turn curves

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Alongside the offer, CPU and Local Analysis and
Delivery Unit (LADU) have just started a rapid
review to better understand the role of the Local
Performance Framework in reducing Child Poverty
What the project wont do
The review will be carried out over the summer,
with visits to LSPs in July
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Over to you

• Our goal is to ensure that you have the support
  and tools you need to tackle child poverty at a
  regional/local level.
• Are we doing the right things?
• What else do you need?