Tackling child poverty and promoting children's well-being: lessons from abroad
Child poverty remains one of the biggest barriers to improving outcomes for children and young people in the United Kingdom today. While in more recent years we have seen a decrease in child poverty rates in this country, there are still too many children missing out on a decent childhood, and the number of children living in poverty is forecast to increase over the comimg years as a result of the economic climate and cuts to welfare and services.
The Child Poverty Act 2010 demonstrated cross-party support for eradicating child poverty, and the coalition government re-confirmed its committment in its overarching programme for government and its 2011 child poverty strategy. However, is the government taking the most effective approach and what more could it be doing to confront child poverty?
Drawing upon NCB's analysis of international examples of effective approaches, this briefing sets out some key components that should be included in the government's future plans for tackling child poverty including:
- having a robust mechanism for taking forward a cross-government child poverty strategy that holds all government departments to account
- intoducing a package of measures to promote maternal employment
- supplementing families' incomes for engaging in activities that promote child well-being
- taking forward evaluated neighbourhood-based approaches to tackling child poverty and promoting child well-being
Published : 26th February 2013
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