Sentences with phrase «local child poverty»

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.

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.»

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.

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

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Compassion International is the world's largest Christian child development organization that works through local churches to permanently release children from poverty.

Recognizing that poverty is more than a lack of money, Compassion works through local churches to holistically address the individual physical, economic, educational and spiritual needs of children — enabling them to thrive, not just survive.

And Help One Now is a catalytic tribe committed to empowering and resourcing high - capacity local leaders who care for orphans and vulnerable children in order to transform communities and break the cycle of extreme poverty.

They're a tribe — people like us — committed to caring for orphans & vulnerable children by empowering & resourcing high - capacity local leaders in order to transform communities & break the cycle of extreme poverty.

She has worked for local and international NGOs on issues such as gender and poverty reduction, and has consulted on M&E, child labor, forced labor, and trafficking issues.

Located in the Back Bay, Room to Grow accepts donations of clothing, books, toys, and other items appropriate for children under age 3 to provide to local families living in poverty.

This meeting on 11 November succeeded in coalescing representatives of major lone parent and child poverty organisations — despite some reluctance on the part of one of the major charities because of political sympathies with Blair by leading individuals — national trade unions, women's officers, local government anti-poverty organisations and MPs.

The local authorities with the largest numbers of children in poverty (with annual economic cost generated by their local poverty rate given alongside) are:

The local cost of child poverty varies in each community.

Child Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in thChild Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in Poverty Action Group has today published estimates of the costs to the economy and government generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in thchild poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

«In XX constituency / local authority the current extent of child poverty costs XX every year and a large part of this cost lands on council services.

The local authority estimates, produced by Donald Hirsch of Loughborough University, are contained in a new report on how local authorities are trying to tackle child poverty at a time of social security cuts and upheaval.

Child Poverty Action Group is holding a conference for local authorities today in Birmingham (18 July 2013).

We hope that local campaigners will be able to use our report to encourage their local councillors to do more to end child poverty in their area and support those families facing the greatest hardship.»

The figures were calculated from a UK national figure of # 29 million a year and are based on the population size and child poverty rate within each local authority area.

David Cameron's poverty adviser yesterday told the Government to «grow up» and get a grip on local authority spending cuts which threatened to «scupper the life chances» of poor children.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Whether you feel passionately about healthcare, children, poverty, or the environment, volunteering with a local project gives you a chance to make a difference while making a date.

Using census data to sort districts within each state by the federal poverty rate among school - age children, the group identified the poorest and richest districts - those with the highest and lowest poverty rates, respectively, whose enrollments compose 25 percent of the state's total enrollment - and matched that information with education revenues from state and local (but not federal) sources.

As well as the graphics and data available from the United Nations, contact your local Geography Teachers» Association and check out the teaching sections on aid agency websites such as UNICEF, Save the Children, Red Cross, Caritas or Care's Global Poverty Teacher's Toolkit.

That marks a significant milestone for education in this country in that we are now utterly focused on there being duties on national and local government to act to reduce the impact of poverty and inequality on children's learning.»

In an era of widespread disagreement on education reform, increased confidence in local control of education, and the absence of a dominant theory on where reform goes from here, visionary mayors are emerging as leaders of thought and action in defining a new role for municipalities to play in developing and educating young people, with particular attention to children living in poverty.

Eligibility for this program is determined in most cases by a child's family income (families below 250 % of federal poverty are eligible), the rating of their local public school (students from schools rated C or below are eligible), and grade level (kindergarten students are eligible without prior public school attendance).

This is one reason among many why I respond so viscerally to demands by not only Trump and Cruz, but, sadly even the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, to weaken federal oversight and rely on local control to secure rights for historically disenfranchised children like those of color, those in poverty, and those with disabilities.

The Local Control and Accountability Plan summarizes a three - year plan for meeting student needs, including increasing or improving services for foster children, English learners and students in poverty.

This is a clickable map, showing Super Local Output Areas (SLOAs), which are a subdivision of local government wards, and their ranking nationally for a range of deprivation indicators such as the educational levels of adults, health outcomes, employment, crime, poverty, and poverty affecting chilLocal Output Areas (SLOAs), which are a subdivision of local government wards, and their ranking nationally for a range of deprivation indicators such as the educational levels of adults, health outcomes, employment, crime, poverty, and poverty affecting chillocal government wards, and their ranking nationally for a range of deprivation indicators such as the educational levels of adults, health outcomes, employment, crime, poverty, and poverty affecting children.

As we demonstrated in our 2015 analysis of the Common Core debate on Twitter, the dispute about the standards was largely a proxy war over other politically - charged issues, including opposition to a federal role in education, which many believe should be the domain of state and local education policy; a fear that the Common Core could become a gateway for access to data on children that might be used for exploitive purposes rather than to inform educational improvement; a source for the proliferation of testing which has come to oppressively dominate education; a way for business interests to exploit public education for private gain; or a belief that an emphasis on standards reform distracts from the deeper underlying causes of low educational performance, which include poverty and social inequity.

In terms of achievement, charter schools do not serve similar proportions of students living in poverty, bilingual children, and children with disabilities when compared to the local districts where they are located.

The statistics regarding children living in poverty have improved little nearly three decades later, but local educators said they are working to meet those challenges with a variety of interventions to help students and their families.

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MONI sponsors or participates in charitable events through the year, whether it's staging the MONI 5K fun run to benefit the humanitarian group Mission 500; providing free security equipment and monitoring services to Agape Resource and Assistance Center, a local group that helps single women and their children to escape homelessness, crisis or poverty; and other worthwhile local endeavors.

Mission to unlock the God - given potential of fatherless children facing extraordinary challenges in Egypt, and so equip them to break the cycle of poverty and become change makers in their local communities.

20 % -»... of the state's approximately 224,000 children, nearly 20 % — 41,645 — are living in poverty,» Go Local reported.

National, state and local supports for low - income families reduce poverty and have long - term impacts on children and families.

Preschool Promise leverages high - quality, local and culturally - relevant early child care and education programs and makes them available to children living at 200 % of the poverty level.

KAE connects with local agencies to find the hidden needs of families in the community, provide financial relief for children, adolescents and seniors living in poverty and open up doors of opportunity for children and adolescents through mentorship and leadership programs.

When the local newspaper does an article on Price Hill, the topic is invariably child poverty or gun violence.