Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO):Cross cutting review

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C4EO theme: Child Poverty

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Introduction

The evidence is clear that by addressing child poverty issues, the life chances and wellbeing of these children and their families are greatly enhanced. Poverty is experienced by many of our most vulnerable children and families and C4EO’s work can support local areas to implement the duties in the Child Poverty Act 2010.

Child Poverty is one of our cross-cutting themes and has focused on one priority only: the development and delivery of effective area-wide child poverty strategies.

In 2010/11 there were an estimated 2.5 million children in poverty before housing costs. The Child Poverty Act placed a number of duties on local authorities and their delivery partners, including carrying out local needs assessments and developing child poverty strategies.

A support to tackle child poverty 2011-12 leaflet outlines the information, guidance and support available from the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) and other organisations to help prevent and tackle child poverty at a local level.

Theme Advisory Groups (TAGs)

The work on this theme was shaped and guided by a Theme Advisory Group. Click here for more information about theme advisory groups and the membership for this theme.

Links

Examples of child poverty strategies and child poverty needs assessments can be found on the Child Poverty Community of Practice.

More information and C4EO Support Officer

For more information about C4EO's Support Officer please read Child Poverty: Improving children’s outcomes or contact C4EO on 020 7843 6358 or email us at contactus@C4EO.org.uk

You can also sign up for regular email updates.

About local practice examples

As with all C4EO themes, C4EO recognises that not all useful knowledge about ‘what works’ and why, is to be found in research reports and papers. We are therefore keen to hear about practice that is leading to significantly improved outcomes for children, young people and their families.

We will incorporate validated local practice examples into our full reviews on what works, which will be shared with other decision-makers in the children’s services field. We will also include them as a special body of evidence on this website.

To be validated, practice examples need to be supported by some evidence which shows the outcomes and changes that have been achieved.