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Opportunities for Families

In 2009 Knowsley Council decided to take an innovative approach to the issue of tackling child poverty. The authority secured funding for a variety of projects and established the Opportunities for Families Team to manage the work.

The team’s projects include:

• Local Authority Innovation Pilot
• School Gates Employment Support
• Extended Services Disadvantaged Subsidy
• Two Year Old Childcare Offer
• Child Development Pilot

The Family Nurse Partnership and the Child Poverty Family Intervention Project are also contributing to tackling child poverty in Knowsley, however these are managed outside of the team but supported and monitored in conjunction with the other projects.

A Child Poverty Programme Guide for Practitioners booklet is also available (in PDF format).

Useful links

Child Poverty Act

This is the link for the Child Poverty Act.  This is an act which has been passed by government and outlines the targets relating to Child Poverty, the Child Poverty Commission, strategies and reports from the Secretary of State.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/9/pdfs/ukpga_20100009_en.pdf

The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion

The Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion is a UK not-for-profit company dedicated to tackling disadvantage and promoting social justice. Inclusion works with the Government, the public sector, interest groups and business to develop policy and strategy, and to implement ideas. Their key areas of social policy expertise are welfare to work, learning and skills, regeneration, homelessness, criminal justice and social exclusion.

http://www.cesi.org.uk/

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an endowed charity that funds a large, UK-wide research and development programme. The foundation seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/

The Centre for Social Justice

The Centre for Social Justice is a think tank dedicated to welfare reform.  The CSJ has been working on policy to tackle economic dependency since January 2006. Government policy in this area is being heavily influenced by the CSJ due to their continued links with the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.  However, the proposals have won wide, cross-party support and are the result of over four years of extensive policy research. 

http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/