Webinar: 13th January 2026
An invaluable opportunity to bring together stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, charities, local authorities, policymakers, and schools, to discuss the underlying causes of child poverty, evaluate current efforts to tackle child poverty, and exchange views on what the government’s upcoming strategy to tackle child poverty should look like.
Programme
- Identify the key provisions that the government’s child poverty strategy should include in order to ensure its meaningful impact
- Evaluate the importance of scrapping the two-child benefit cap to tackling child poverty
- Understand the history and the economic, political, institutional and socio-cultural drivers of child poverty in the UK, and UK child poverty levels in the context of comparable developed economies
- Generate specific strategies for tackling child poverty among minority, disadvantaged communities
- Formulate specific strategies for tackling child poverty within working households
- Design strategies specifically aimed at supporting children living in deep poverty
- Learn about best practice international examples of policy platforms, institutional frameworks and macroeconomic structures designed to guard against and tackle child poverty
- Evaluate current efforts across the four nations of the UK to tackle child poverty and consider the role that austerity and Brexit have played in driving child poverty
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