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Narrowing the gap in outcomes for young children through effective practices in the early years
Improving children’s attainment through a better quality of family-based support for early learning
Improving development outcomes for children through effective practice in integrating early years services
Improving the well-being of disabled children (up to the age of eight) and their families through increasing the quality and range of early interventions
Improving the well-being of disabled children and young people through improving access to extended services, universal youth services, inclusive play and leisure opportunities, sports and the arts
Ensuring all disabled children and young people and their families receive services which are sufficiently differentiated to meet their diverse needs
Improving the educational outcomes of looked after children and young people (LACYP)
Improving the emotional and behavioural health of looked after children and young people (LACYP)
Increasing the number of care leavers in ‘settled, safe accommodation’
Protecting children living in families where they are at high risk of abuse, harm or neglect
Development and delivery of effective area-wide child poverty strategies
Child Poverty needs assessment
Narrowing the gap in educational achievement and improving emotional resilience
All children and young people make sustained progress and remain fully engaged through all transitions between key stages and services, 0-19 yrs (25 for care leavers)
Strengthening family well-being and community cohesion through the role of schools and extended service
Increasing the engagement of young people in positive activities so as to achieve the ECM outcomes
Delivering better outcomes for young people by increasing the impact of targeted youth support and development
Children and young people make healthy lifestyle choices by reducing their alcohol consumption and so improve their health, safety and well-being
Improving the safety, health and wellbeing of children through improving the physical and mental health of mothers, fathers and carers
Improving children’s outcomes by supporting parental and carer couple relationships and reducing conflict within families, including domestic violence
Improving children’s and young people’s achievement, behavioural and emotional outcomes through effective support and intervention with mothers, fathers and carers of 7-19 year olds

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Child Poverty Communities of Practice website

A Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals with common problems or interests who get together and explore ways of working to identify common solutions and share good practice and ideas.

C4EO uses the I&DEA (Improvement and Development Agency) Communities of Practice website to support a community based around specific topics.

It is a freely accessible resource that is supported by collaboration tools that encourage knowledge sharing and learning from each others' experiences.

The benefits of CoPs lie in providing a collaborative environment that connects people to other people, information and knowledge. Specifically CoPs can:

encourage the development and sharing of new ideas and strategies
support faster problem-solving
cut down on the duplication of effort
provide potentially endless access to expertise

The Community of Practice includes the following tools:

Forum - for having discussions with other members of your community.
Events - a place for you to share and publish events.
Library - a collection of items, such as documents, images, slides and other files, shared by community members. Any member of the community can add to the library.
Other tools include Wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and email alerts. (C4EO to decide if they want to use these)

The Child Poverty CoP is Jointly facilitated by C4EO, the Child Poverty Unit and the Beacon theme for 'preventing and tackling child poverty', this is an interactive platform for online problem-solving, peer-support and information sharing for those working to tackle and prevent child poverty.

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