Poverty and disadvantage

What's the project?

CWDC is working to help meet the Government's target of ending child poverty by 2020. We are focused on ensuring that all children have equal life chances, regardless of where they come from.

What do we mean by poverty?

The government uses a number of measures of poverty:
- relative poverty - below 60% of the median income
- absolute poverty
- material deprivation and low income
- among the lowest in Europe

What are we doing?

We're planning to do this by further developing the knowledge and understanding about poverty and disadvantage of people who work with children and young people.

To start with, we're finding out what training and information already exists for practitioners and managers in the core and wider children's workforce.

What do we mean by disadvantage?

For us, there are a large number of factors that might mean a family, child or young person is disadvantaged.

These include:
- mental ill-health
- physical ill-health or disability
- substance misuse

We will then consider developing some training that fills in any gaps in availability.

 

When will this be?

The first phase of this work will be carried out during autumn 2009.

What will happen next?

After we have found out what is already available, we will explore ways of improving it.