Tackling Child Poverty 2023
Online Conference 23 May 2023, 9:00am - 2:45pm
Learning Outcomes
- Discover how widespread and wide-reaching the issue of child poverty and that more must be done to reverse current trends
- Identify the causes and consequences of child poverty and examine the government policies currently addressing them
- Learn about the detrimental health, educational and long-term social outcomes associated with poverty and why its effect is more pronounced on children
- Identify ways to protect and support the most vulnerable children and families from the effects of the cost of living crisis
- Address inequality for children growing up in the north of England and set out recommendations to tackle the widening gap between the north and the rest of the UK
- Understand that link between child poverty caused by benefit cuts and the increase in the number of children going into care