May 2025

The child poverty project was initiated by elected members and has two lived experience advisors sitting on the working group, along with four partner organisations supporting the project.

The project is looking at the question “How can we work with communities to make services more welcoming and empowering for children and families affected by poverty?”. This will be focusing on services that are within the Council’s remit.

The HDRC team will gather different types of evidence to answer this question and present it to the working group over the next year. The group will then make recommendations based on the evidence presented to them.