The Liverpool City Region Chief Executives, City Region Cabinet and the City Employment Strategy (CES) Board are fully committed to improving the life chances of children and families across the city region and to the government’s ambition of eradicating child poverty by 2020.
The Liverpool City Region Cabinet have confirmed their commitment to tackling child and family poverty and improving life chances of children and young people by approving the City Region Child Poverty and Life Chance Strategy. Prepared by the Liverpool City Region Child Poverty and Life Chances Commission, the Strategy focuses on a series of practical actions that organisations can implement. The Commission, which is chaired by Frank Field MP, has spent time considering the issues involved in tackling child and family poverty and improving life chances, and will be monitoring the implementation of the Strategy on behalf of the City Region Cabinet. The Strategy was drawn up as a response to the City Region Needs Assessment, which was completed in early 2011.
They have identified tackling child and family poverty as one of their key priorities and fully endorsed the development of the report, ‘A Brighter Future: working together to tackle child and family poverty (Liverpool City Region Child and Family Poverty Framework Analysis Report).
Whilst the levels of child and family poverty have fallen nationally (and across the Liverpool City Region) over the last decade, figures in the Liverpool City Region (LCR) remain amongst the highest in the country.
We are clear that unless we develop a cross cutting strategic approach to addressing the high levels of child and family poverty then our wider efforts to “establish our status as a thriving international city region by 2030” will be seriously undermined.
30 June 2010
The Liverpool City Region Chief Executives, City Region Cabinet and the City Employment Strategy (CES) Board are fully committed to improving the life chances of children and families across the city region and to the government’s ambition of eradicating child poverty by 2020.
They have identified tackling child and family poverty as one of their key priorities and fully endorsed the development of the report, ‘A Brighter Future: working together to tackle child and family poverty (Liverpool City Region Child and Family Poverty Framework Analysis Report).
Whilst the levels of child and family poverty have fallen nationally (and across the Liverpool City Region) over the last decade, figures in the Liverpool City Region (LCR) remain amongst the highest in the country.
We are clear that unless we develop a cross cutting strategic approach to addressing the high levels of child and family poverty then our wider efforts to “establish our status as a thriving international city region by 2030” will be seriously undermined.
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Child and family poverty is a complex issue that requires a wide partnership approach. The following Child and Family Poverty Briefing Papers aim to provide partners with an introduction to child and family poverty and its close relationship with a range of service areas.
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