Sentences with phrase «child poverty strategy»

2014: The child poverty strategy, 2014 to 2017 was published with two main aims to engineer a shift away from supporting families through income transfers towards tackling the root causes of poverty by enabling more parents to enter work and earn more.

The data from the KLT and YLT surveys clearly identify the financial pressures upon families and will be an important tool for government, in particular to monitor progress related to its Child Poverty Strategy which aims for a sustained reduction in poverty.»

Frank Field, the Labour MP who has drawn up the Government's child poverty strategy, told The Times that the national network of Sure Start centres would be «decimated» by council cuts unless the Prime Minister intervenes immediately.

All the main political parties voted for the Act and the Coalition published a child poverty strategy and set up a child poverty commission.

Every council is required by law to have a local child poverty strategy, and the good news is that reducing child poverty benefits everyone by cutting the costs to local authority services and boosting the local economy through improved skills and qualifications for school leavers.

We need a strong local child poverty strategy so that children growing up in XX have a better future, and so that we avoid having to spend on failure and can invest everyone's council tax contributions in more positive ways.»

Required to conduct a local needs assessment and produce joint local child poverty strategy.

Annual reports to parliament on success of government's child poverty strategies Establish Child Poverty Commission to provide independent advice on strategies.

The conference, and the new report, is to aid local authorities in developing their local child poverty strategies to meet the need generated by social security cuts and reforms, and to look at the opportunities they have to make progress on poverty prevention and reduction.

The report, Local Authorities and Child Poverty: Balancing Threats with Opportunities, is launched today at a CPAG conference in Birmingham aimed at assisting local authorities fulfil their obligations under the Child Poverty Act to implement effective local child poverty strategies.

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Four concrete and relevant targets by 2025 In order to secure the future of chocolate, Barry Callebaut's new sustainability strategy includes four targets that the company expects to achieve by 2025 and that address the biggest sustainability challenges in the chocolate supply chain: • Eradicate child labor from its supply chain • Lift more than 500,000 cocoa farmers out of poverty • Become carbon and forest positive • Have 100 % sustainable ingredients in all its products CEO Antoine de Saint - Affrique says: «The targets we have set ourselves after a thorough materiality analysis are bold, and we recognize that we do not have all the answers.

Following the judgment of the Hockenjos v. Secretary of State for Work & Pensions (21 December 2004), where the lack of financial support for non-resident parents who share care for children was found to be sex discrimination, the Childcare Strategy must address the barriers to sharing caring responsibilities in low - income families, where child poverty is a high risk.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

The effects of breastfeeding on children's development have important implications for both public - health policies and for the design of targeted early intervention strategies to improve the developmental outcomes of children at risk as a result of biological (e.g., prematurity) or social adversity (e.g., poverty).

The draft legislation would legally require the government to set a target for the reduction of child poverty and a strategy for achieving it.

Strategic — we raise awareness of the causes, extent and impact of child poverty and by advocating strategies for its eradication and prevention

«Yet scandalously, rather than embarking on a strategy to tackle poverty and inequality, it now appears the Government plans to change the definition of child poverty in an attempt to mask the terrible toll its policies are taking on our children and young people.

«A coherent strategy is needed to tackle housing, poverty and health to secure the future for all children and young people.»

However, today Mr Hutton argued that you can not deal with differences in life expectancy through the pension system - these must be tackled with better strategies on public health, child poverty and improved education and skills training.

The need for solid research in the humanitarian realm has always been great, whether it's documenting human - rights violations, measuring child poverty, or planning response strategies to health emergencies in developing countries.

Certainly any strategy that seeks to improve life chances and equalise opportunities for children without turning the tide against growing levels of child poverty is going to face an uphill struggle and place an even greater burden on services that seek to alleviate various negative effects of inadequate family resources.

In an interview, Skandera said that at its heart, her strategy was to create a shift in mindset, from a «belief that children from poverty can't learn to a belief that children from poverty can learn.»

Looking at child poverty and strategies employed to alleviate it, including raising aspirations.

«What we need is a credible, constructive and collegiate school improvement strategy and a serious government - led effort to reduce inequality and the number of children living in poverty.»

Among the books educator Lisa Signorelli has read about teaching children in high poverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the clapoverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the claPoverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the classroom.

Many, though not all, schools that succeed with poor children devise strategies to mitigate the effects of poverty with site - based social services and extended learning opportunities.

At the general election each party must pledge a real strategy to reduce child poverty, with children's centres and sure start in every town to ensure that every child has the best start in life.

Fully funding this program would be a far more effective strategy to ensure that children in poverty receive the supplemental services they need to achieve on par with their wealthier peers.

Mentoring is a strategy to ensure that children living in poverty have the encouragement and support to aim high and enter the middle class.

The foundation recommends six strategies to help move low - income families onto the path to prosperity and ensure the nation's next generation is able to compete in our global economy, including preserving and strengthening programs that supplement poverty - level wages, offset the high cost of child care, and provide health insurance coverage for parents and children; promoting responsible parenthood and ensuring that mothers - to - be receive prenatal care; ensuring that children are developmentally ready to succeed in school; and promoting reading proficiency by the end of 3rd grade.

Later, as the chief academic officer for the Charlotte - Mecklenburg public schools in North Carolina, she implemented initiatives such as intensive reading programs for students in Kindergarten through the third grade; extensive training for teachers instructing English learners and professional development strategies to teach children of poverty.

Teachers of special populations will especially appreciate Buckley's successful strategies for reaching English language learners and children from high - poverty homes who may not have strong foundations for academic discourse.

This bundle examines how poverty affects children across the nation and offers strategies for ensuring all students, regardless of circumstance, are college and career ready.

Implementing these strategies helps support the broader goal of many afterschool and summer programs, especially those supported by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative, to improve student achievement among children attending high - poverty schools.

Teachers today must work to develop and implement appropriate strategies to teach children who are growing up in poverty.

That program currently provides states, districts, and schools with $ 2.25 billion in flexible funding to strengthen teacher and school leader effectiveness and improve student outcomes, with a focus on investing in evidence - based strategies to support children living in poverty.

With specific advice for charter sector leaders, policymakers and philanthropists, Going Exponential offers strategies that could enable every child living in poverty to have access to schools as good as today's top ten percent charter schools by 2025.

The good news to this disturbing figure is that a strategy is in place to address some serious problems, including an end to child poverty by 2030.

• Conference calls on the Australian Government to fund education and primary prevention strategies — for example the alleviation of poverty, ensuring year round fresh food supply, addressing overcrowding, and enhancing sanitation to eliminate preventable diseases such as secondary infections amongst young children.

Home - visitation programs can be an effective early - intervention strategy to improve the health and well - being of children, particularly if they are embedded in comprehensive community services to families at risk.4 Home - visitation programs are not a panacea, sufficient unto themselves to reverse or prevent the damaging effects on children of poverty and inadequate or inexperienced parenting.

In addition, they propose a unique solution, one more akin to the types of strategies used by thoughtful clinicians — namely, children in need might be best identified not only through the presence of early behavioural signs and symptoms but also through the convergence of other indicators, such as well established risk factors for adverse outcomes independent from the behavioural indicators themselves (eg, single parent status, family poverty, neuropsychological functioning, etc).

Working With Young Children and Their Families: Recommendations for Domestic Violence Agencies and Batterer Intervention Programs (PDF - 1220 KB) Gewirtz & Menakem (2004) In Early Childhood, Domestic Violence, and Poverty: Helping Young Children and Their Families Discusses strategies for ensuring the safety of and providing services to children and adult victims in families affected by domestic vChildren and Their Families: Recommendations for Domestic Violence Agencies and Batterer Intervention Programs (PDF - 1220 KB) Gewirtz & Menakem (2004) In Early Childhood, Domestic Violence, and Poverty: Helping Young Children and Their Families Discusses strategies for ensuring the safety of and providing services to children and adult victims in families affected by domestic vChildren and Their Families Discusses strategies for ensuring the safety of and providing services to children and adult victims in families affected by domestic vchildren and adult victims in families affected by domestic violence.

The new policy statement recommends 11 strategies to protect the health of children affected by poverty and help families become more secure:

Citing the need for a two - generation approach to overcoming poverty, a new policy brief by the Annie E. Casey Foundation identifies home visiting as a key strategy for addressing the needs of both parents and their children.

Such concerns have elicited two kinds of responses: first, efforts to adapt marital education programs to better meet the needs of low - income families; and second, proposals to combine marital education with strategies that would directly tackle the poverty - related stressors on family life — for example, with help in finding a job, income supplements to make up for low wages, child care assistance, and medical coverage.

Source: National Center for Children in Poverty The aim of the study reported in this brief was to determine how states leveraged different policy choices to support integration of social - emotional developmental strategies into early intervention services.