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FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Working with others Schools alone are unable to tackle and overcome the effects of child poverty on education. Effective schools working in deprived areas develop creative methods of working with others.
Develop creative methods for the recruitment and retention of staff. Consider recruiting from the local community and ex pupils for all staff positions.
Sustainable Procurement In 2005 it was estimated that 35% of the ÂŁ4 billion spent each year by the public sector in Wales was won by indigenous business supporting some 70,000 jobs. Every 1% increase to this figure should relate to an increase of some 2,000 jobs.
Develop a common partnership approach to sustainable procurement that ensures opportunities to support the local economy and skills development of young people are secured.
Travelling to learn/work Transport is a significant barrier to accessing learning/ employment and training. Learners from less well-off backgrounds are further disadvantaged if they are not funded to travel to work placements.
Sustrans travel planning Review local policy and guidance and WAG Funding Advice develop travel plan to ensure that learners and workers in disadvantaged areas are able to access learning opportunities in the most efficient way possible. Developing a Transport impact assessment maybe a useful evaluative tool.
Buy Wales http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/ node/1413 http://www.s-p-i-n.co.uk/ toolkit.asp#Socio-Economic
FE / Training Providers Play Sport, Leisure and Culture / Chwarae, campau, hamdden a'r pethe Income Poverty
Current Challenges Engaging children, young people and their families in arts, culture and leisure when there are significant financial barriers.
What Can Be Done? Maximise use of community settings e.g. integrated children’s centres or community schools to provide subsidised activities. Access extracurricular provision through programmes such as Dragon Sport and 5x60, in which teachers and volunteers provide activity sessions free of charge or at minimal cost. Provide staffed play areas - funding available from Big Lottery fund
Where To Go? The Community Builders Handbook Arts Council Wales fund community arts and dance organisations across Wales who aim to engage children from deprived communities. Sports Council for Wales employ Dragon Sport Coordinators based in local authorities across Wales. The Coordinators work with schools and community clubs to provide opportunities for 7-11 year olds http://www.dragonsport.co.uk 5x60 officers are funded through the Sports Council for Wales to provide extracurricular sport sessions for secondary school pupils.
FE / Training Providers Participation and Decision Making / Cymryd rhan yn y broses benderfynu Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Being Worse Off Children and young people experiencing poverty should not be worse off as a result of their participation.
Fully review the individual costs of participation and ensure that up front costs are minimised.
Camden documents
Lack of money Monetary issues can often act as a barrier to attending participation activity.
Develop good practice in relation to the reward, remuneration and recognition of Children and young people’s participation, ensuring that it takes into account the complexities of the welfare benefits system.
Good practice Guide www.participationworkerswales.org.uk
FE / Training Providers A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Income Poverty
Current Challenges Economic inactivity In 2005-6 men and women living in social housing in Wales had a lower rate of economic activity and higher unemployment than those living in other tenures and of economic inactivity.
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Explore ways of working in partnership to DWP Report on Social Housing and join up employment and housing solutions. Worklessness Review housing related procurement processes and investigate the potential for social clauses and employment skills development. Link housing options advice with employment advice
FE / Training Providers Income Maximisation / Employment / Heb fod dan anfantais o achos tlodi Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Research indicates that benefit take-up is an issue within Wales Official figures show 44% of couples with children are paying out much more than they need to in council tax. HMRC state that in 2005-2006, 60,000 families did not claim their entitlement to Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit which amounted to £80m of unclaimed Tax credits. (central estimates)
Consider the feasibility of undertaking in work benefit-take up take up activities with working families on low incomes. Such activity should be multiagency involving experts from the voluntary sector.
http://www.lga.gov.uk/lga/publications/ publication-display.do?id=22235 http://www.entitledto.co.uk/default.aspx
The nature and degree of partnership working between Job Centre Plus and the local councils varies across Wales. To date only a small percentage of Council’s have signed up to the Job Centre Plus Local Employment Partnerships initiative (which aims to bring together Government and large employers to help 250,000 disadvantaged people into jobs within three years).
Consider the appropriateness of committing the Council to the Job Centre Plus’s Local Employment Initiative (the following public sector bodies have signed up to this Scheme Somerset County Council, Coventry City Council, Glasgow City Council, Middlesbrough City Council, NHS Wales, North Glamorgan NHS Trust, West Lothian Council, Birmingham City Council). Review HR policies to ensure that recruitment practices are inclusive and do not disadvantage vulnerable groups.
Local Employment Partnerships
FE / Training Providers The Early Years (0-7) / Y blynyddoedd cynnar Service Poverty
Current Challenges Basic Skills Improvement
What Can Be Done? Develop robust approached to improving basic skills.
Where To Go? http://www.basic-skills-wales.org/ bsastrategy/en/resources/ early_years.cfm http://www.basic-skills-wales.org/ bsastrategy/en/resources/early_years/ family_programmes good_practicepack.cfm http://www.basic-skills-wales.org/ bsastrategy/en/cross_phase/ financial_literacy_homepage.cfm
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Service Poverty
Current Challenges Supporting Educational Attainment
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Develop effective Children and young people Contact Partnership Support Unit for partnership monitoring arrangements for available resources. Contact Charlotte Drury educational attainment specifically targeting PSU Manager (029) 20468616 underachievement.
Basic Skills Work with the Basic Skills Cymru to develop Lack of basic skills limit the ability of pupils to a robust approach to developing Basic skills partake in educational and skills based attainment at secondary level. activities.
Basic Skills Agency
Basic Skills Work with the Basic Skills Cymru to develop Lack of basic skills limit the ability of pupils to a robust approach to developing Basic skills partake in educational and skills based attainment at post 16. activities. This limits employment opportunities
Basic-skills-Wales: post_16 resource
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Basic Skills Low levels of basic skills in work hamper the ability of employees to progress and perpetuates in work poverty.
Prioritise basic skills within your own organisations and encourage all partners to sign up to "Basic skills employer pledge". Complete and implement the action plan.
Basic-skills-Wales: employer_pledge
Improvement & Accountability Schools that successfully counter the disadvantages caused by child poverty possess excellent systems to monitor and evaluate the quality of the curriculum.
Review the current monitoring arrangements for educational inequality and ensure that good practice is adopted.
the extra mile: How schools succeed in raising aspirations in deprived areas
Homework Policies Children from more advantaged backgrounds enjoy considerable out of school support in overcoming their problems that their disadvantaged peers do not receive. The latter are almost totally dependent on out-ofschool homework clubs if they are to access such support.
Develop guidance on homework policies that http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/ take account of the difficult situation faced by management/atoz/h/homework/ children experiencing poverty and the Homework Policies support that can be made available to them.
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Curriculum and Teaching Further develop pupil centred approaches Schools that are ‘learning organisations’ and that assesses what would it take to achieve prioritise classroom experiences and learning good outcomes for each individual child. rather than teaching have been found to be successful in reducing the gaps in educational attainment caused by poverty
The Extra mile : How schools succeed in deprived areas
Curriculum and Teaching Provide cultural opportunities that pupils Cultural opportunities provide many benefits would otherwise not have access to (sport, which can increase childhood resilience. art and other activities) Those who grow up in poverty have fewer recreational, social and cultural opportunities.
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits (TL_MUSEUMS)
Curriculum and Teaching Literacytrust.org.uk/socialinclusion Priorities community schooling in schools Extended Schools and out of school activities with high populations of pupils entitled to free nfer extended schools programmes that provide effective and com- school meals. plementary educational support to vulnerable children play a significant part in reducing the gaps in educational attainment.
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Service Poverty
Current Challenges Learning Coaches
What Can Be Done? Undertake Learning Coach training on child poverty.
Intervention & Support Develop robust pupil tracking and support Successful schools working in deprived com- mechanisms for pupils at risk of undermunities set ambitious targets for pupils, achievement track them regularly, and intervene immediately should any pupil fall behind. School Rewards
Where To Go? Learning Coaches (Wales)
WAG A focus on achievement: Guidance on including pupils with additional needs in whole school target setting
Develop in partnership a flexible pastoral and dfes goodpractice WAG: A whole school approach to behavyouth support framework iour and attendance
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg
Service Poverty
Current Challenges Working with others
What Can Be Done? Consider bringing in role models to show people from their own background that can be successful.
Where To Go? http://www.infed.org/biblio/ role_model_education.htm http://www.teachers.tv/video/244
Smooth Transitions Develop a partnership approach to the In Wales, the proportion of young people reduction of NEETs focusing on early not engaged in education, employment or intervention. training (NEET) aged 16-18 is at a relatively high level – at around 10-12% or 12,000 young people for nearly a decade.
WAG Consultation paper on NEETs http://www.bild.org.uk/03books_autism.htm http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/children/ docs/neet-toolkit.pdf
FE / Training Providers Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Smooth transitions
Develop robust methods that track those at risk of becoming a NEET, deal swiftly with dropout and develop efficient coordinated youth support services.
TOOLKIT ALIGNING PROVISION Developing provision to meet PSA Targets for Attainment of Level 2 at 19 and Reducing the proportion of Young People who are not in education, employment or training (NEET)
School Leadership
Develop a culture which is characterised by The Extra mile : How schools succeed in an assumption by teachers that they need to deprived areas earn pupils respect and attention by using interactive teaching techniques.
FE / Training Providers Participation and Decision Making / Cymryd rhan yn y broses benderfynu Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Workforce Development There is a perception that there are skills gaps in relation to the delivery of participation activities relating to child poverty.
Training adults in the participation of children and young people living in poverty so that they can support, encourage and facilitate this process.
The Participation Unit has a list of participation trainers from across Wales. The Unit is also piloting a Train the Trainers in children and young people’s participation which will cascade training across Wales.
Limited local knowledge There is limited research on the local barriers to participation caused by child poverty
Undertake participatory approaches to explore the barriers to participation of hard to reach children and young people / children and young people living in poverty in particular.
Download the good practice guide on ‘Ensuring Inclusion’ from www.participationworkerswales.org.uk Contact organisations with expertise in reaching hard to reach groups e.g. Black Voluntary Sector Network
FE / Training Providers Participation and Decision Making / Cymryd rhan yn y broses benderfynu Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Lack of Resources There are limited practical resources for facilitating the participation of vulnerable children and young people with sensitive issues such as child poverty.
Use resources available e.g. Dyamix ‘Spice It Up’ pack for games and activities. Draw on good practice from other areas / organisations
Sign up as a member to the participation e-briefings for the Participation Workers’ Network for Wales and get examples of good practice from across Wales. Download good practice guides on children and young people’s participation from www.participationworkerswales.org.uk. Liaise with local participation workers / youth forum workers who have a remit for the participation of children and young people locally. Liaise with local school councils. Liaise with Funky Dragon, the Children and Young People’s Assembly for Wales, which has a national remit for children and young people’s participation.
Processes Improving the process of children and young people’s participation and the quality of their experience overall remains a key issue for practitioners.
Use the National Children and Young People’s Participation Standards as a guide. There are seven standards: information, it’s your choice, no discrimination, respect, you get something out of it, feedback and improving how we work. Keeping to these Standards will mean upholding what children and young people have identified as the core components of participation.
Download the National Participation Standards document and the Self Assessment Pack from the website www.participationworkerswales.org.uk which shows how to measure and evidence against the Standards to improve good practice.
FE / Training Providers A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Service Poverty
Current Challenges Homelessness
What Can Be Done? Ensure that Youth Workers, Careers Wales staff and other officers dealing with unemployed young people are trained in homelessness issues
Where To Go? http://www.homelesspages.org.uk/index.asp