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Introduction
Welcome to C4EO's e-learning resource on Child Poverty - part of our remit to gather and share local, regional and national evidence of what works to improve outcomes in services, especially for the most vulnerable children, young people and families.
Tackling child poverty is important to everyone who is concerned with improving outcomes for children. Poverty is closely linked to all the Every Child Matters outcomes - it affects children's health, their safety, their ability to achieve and to make an active contribution to social and community life. Poverty not only affects children's lives now, but is also linked to poorer outcomes in later life.
The main messages of the knowledge review are that effective action to tackle child poverty requires:
- a multi-agency/partnership approach, including sharing data and developing evidence-based practice on child poverty reduction
- maximising family income to alleviate poverty for children and their carers
- narrowing outcome gaps between young people from poor and affluent backgrounds in order to improve economic well being in later life
- actively involving children, families and communities in strategic decision-making about anti-child-poverty policy development.
These messages are already informing the policy and practice being developed by many local authorities and partnerships in response to the 2010 Child Poverty Act. They reinforce the importance of ensuring that any whole-area child poverty strategy is linked to the Every Child Matters outcomes, and the need to ensure that the links between child and family poverty and outcomes for children are understood by everyone in your partnership. Tackling child poverty requires a joined-up approach, where Children's Services, other local authority departments and a range of both statutory and non-statutory partners, work together with children, families and communities to alleviate all aspects of poverty.
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About C4EO
C4EO's unique remit is to 'gather and share' evidence of what works. We therefore hope that you will continue to support us by engaging in regional events, giving us feedback about our data and sharing your local examples of effective practice, to help us to continue to build the evidence base for tackling child poverty.
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Child Poverty is one of seven themes explored in this series of e-learning resources. The first in the series on the Early Years also has important information relevant to child poverty.
The knowledge review is based on a rapid review of the research literature involving systematic searching, data scoping, validated local practice examples and views from service users and providers. The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) carried out this review on behalf of the Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO).
The C4EO e-learning themes: Early Years; Disability; Vulnerable Children (particularly children in care); Child Poverty; Safeguarding; Schools and Communities; Families, Parents and Carers.
The C4EO themes: Early Years; Disability; Vulnerable Children (particularly children in care); Child Poverty; Safeguarding; Schools and Communities; Families, Parents and Carers.