Higher levels of access to mental health services including More residents needing local council tax assistance and housing benefit; Higher demand for social housing stock. Through pro-actively attempting to the cycle of child poverty, the following impacts are likely: More parents and children use Children’s Centres and related services; Greater need for childcare services across the borough; Reduced pressure on children’s social care services; More spend on public health programmes such as breastfeeding and smoking cessation; Higher volume of participants engaged in employment advice services; More young people engaged in youth services. 7. DO WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF WHAT WORKS? There is a wealth of literature around what works in reducing child poverty which includes the following key documents: Frank Field (2010) foundation years: preventing poor children becoming ‘The poor adults’. Graham Allen (2011) intervention: the next steps’. ‘Early Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2014) poverty in the UK: a collection ‘Reducing of evidence reviews’. Child Poverty Action Group (2012) Child Poverty by 2020: Progress ‘Ending made and lessons learned’. National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) (2013) in ‘What supporting children and young people to overcome persistent poverty? A review of UK and International Literature’. Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (2014) the ‘Understanding parental employment scenarios necessary to meet the 2020 child poverty targets’. Save the Children (2014) fair start for every child: why we must act now to ‘A tackle child poverty in the UK’. The Children’s Society (2014) childhoods: reframing the fight to end ‘Decent child poverty’. Department for Education (2011) authority child poverty innovation ‘Local report evaluation: final synthesis report’. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a wealth of research over the past 20 years around poverty, low income, and the drivers behind them.
Higher levels of access to mental health services including More residents needing local council tax assistance and housing benefit; Higher demand for social housing stock. Through pro-actively attempting to the cycle of child poverty, the following impacts are likely: More parents and children use Children’s Centres and related services; Greater need for childcare services across the borough; Reduced pressure on children’s social care services; More spend on public health programmes such as breastfeeding and smoking cessation; Higher volume of participants engaged in employment advice services; More young people engaged in youth services. 7. DO WE HAVE EVIDENCE OF WHAT WORKS? There is a wealth of literature around what works in reducing child poverty which includes the following key documents: Frank Field (2010) ‘The foundation years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults’. Graham Allen (2011) ‘Early intervention: the next steps’. Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2014) ‘Reducing poverty in the UK: a collection of evidence reviews’. Child Poverty Action Group (2012) ‘Ending Child Poverty by 2020: Progress made and lessons learned’. National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) (2013) ‘What in supporting children and young people to overcome persistent poverty? A review of UK and International Literature’. Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (2014) ‘Understanding the parental employment scenarios necessary to meet the 2020 child poverty targets’. Save the Children (2014) ‘A fair start for every child: why we must act now to tackle child poverty in the UK’. The Children’s Society (2014) ‘Decent childhoods: reframing the fight to end child poverty’. Department for Education (2011) ‘Local authority child poverty innovation report evaluation: final synthesis report’. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a wealth of research over the past 20 years around poverty, low income, and the drivers behind them.