The child poverty team supports councils and their partners to improve outcomes for families experiencing child poverty and support a preventative approach to tackling inequalities.
The child poverty team works with local authorities and health boards to support the development of LCPARs by acting as child poverty champions, sharing and promoting good practice, and working to ensure local reports are an effective lever for tackling child poverty in Scotland. It supports authorities to carry out self-assessment and to develop improvement plans to ensure they are maximising the support they can give to families living in poverty.
The Rural Child Poverty Project Officer supports authorities to tackle the unique challenges faced by rural communities, such as fuel poverty, difficulties accessing childcare, and an increased cost of living.
The Programme Manager chairs the Local Child Poverty Peer Support Network and co-chairs the Local Child Poverty Coordination Group (‘National Partners Group’) with Public Health Scotland. The purpose of these groups is to coordinate efforts and resources to tackle child poverty at a local level.
Child poverty team members
- Hanna McCulloch, Programme Manager for Child Poverty and SAVVI
- Isabella Williams, Child Poverty Project Officer
- James Taylor, Rural Child Poverty Officer
- Felicia Szloboda, Child Poverty and UNCRC& Project Officer (part-time)
- Martin McCallum, Child Poverty Accelerator Fund Data Project Officer (Research Team)
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: Joining the dots across key policy agendas (briefing)
There are a number of key policy agendas that are part of a broader ambition to improve outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity. This briefing highlights the links across these and explores opportunities for re-framing these multiple policy ambitions as opportunities to work together around the common goal of improving outcomes for people and communities.
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Improving outcomes for people and communities affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity: joining the dots across key policy agendas (infographic)
This infographic provides an overview of a small number of key national policy agendas, approaches and commitments, all designed to support a cross-policy, person-centred approach to improving outcomes for people and communities across Scotland affected by poverty, inequality, trauma and adversity.