Child Poverty

A new three-year action plan has been agreed by Plymouth City Council to tackle child poverty in the city.

The Plan for Child Poverty 2016 – 2019 will look at four priorities and will build on the work done since 2012 to tackle child poverty in the city.

The focus of the Plan for Child Poverty 2016-2019 will be on the following four key areas:

• Supporting families
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The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has published estimates of the costs generated by child poverty rates in every local authority and constituency in the UK.

The CPAG estimates the cost of child poverty in Plymouth to be £120 million per year with 11,085 children in the city falling below the relative poverty line.

The local authority estimates, produced by Donald Hirsch of...

Making home energy bills cheaper and increasing wages to the cost of living are just two of the ways Plymouth will tackle child poverty in a hard-hitting city-wide action plan.

Cabinet has agreed a three year strategy and action plan to reduce child poverty and mitigate its effects - pledge number 21 of its 100 promises made in May 2012.

The plan is split into four main themes...