Under the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017 local authorities and territorial health boards have a duty to produce joint annual local child poverty action reports.
These reports should describe actions taken in the past year – and planned future actions – to tackle child poverty and contribute to national targets to significantly reduce child poverty by 2030. The reporting year begins on the 1st of April and runs to the 31st if March.
You can read the latest child poverty action report from your area
here.
The hope is that the production and implementation of these reports will help bring about a ‘step-change’ in action to tackle child poverty by encouraging a strategic, preventative approach focusing on the underlying drivers of child poverty (income from employment, income from social security and the cost of living).
This self assessment is designed to help you to consider how well you feel XX's approach to tackling child poverty is working, to take time to think through any challenges or areas for improvement and to think about what might be required to bring about a Stepchange for low income families in XX.
The Self Assessment Process
The purpose of the Self Assessment is to consider your approach to addressing child poverty in XX. By taking time to reflect on this work and gathering a collective view, you will be well placed to ensure you bringing the right people, resources and approach to take this important agenda forward.
This
anonymous survey contains four sections (Understanding Child Poverty in XX, Resources and Policies, Understanding Impact and How We Work), each with a set of supporting statements. You are asked to consider these statements in the context of XX and then rate the extent to which you as an individual agree/disagree with each statement.
The ‘Don’t Know’ option should be used when you feel you do not have sufficient information about the particular statement to enable you to make a judgment.
At the end of each section there are comments boxes. The first asks you to provide details of positive examples that support your views on how well the community planning partnership is performing in relation to the statements (strengths). The second requires you to provide further details of how you think the approach can be improved in relation to the statements covered by the section.
You can save your progress and return to the survey at a future date.
Once all the surveys have been completed and returned to the improvement service they will be processed and the findings fed back to the group. The IS and its national partners will then host a session at which we will work together to identify agreed core strengths and areas for improvement.
If you have any questions about the survey or experience any technical problems please contact hanna.mcculloch@improvementservice.org.uk