Planning
Planning The Early Years (0-7) / Y blynyddoedd cynnar Income Poverty
Current Challenges Preventing Arrears
What Can Be Done? Develop sensitive recovery arrangements for rent arrears and evictions to ensure that vulnerable groups are not placed at greater risk and review the approach to supporting vulnerable groups in tenancies.
Lack of affordable housing to rent and to Local Authorities could consider using the buy income generated by the s106 process to employ an affordable housing officer to maximise the amount of affordable housing that can be gained from the planning process.
Where To Go? Exeter guidance on Rent Arrears Recovery
106 Agreement Toolkit
Planning Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg Income Poverty
Current Challenges 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.
What Can Be Done? Develop a common partnership approach to sustainable procurement that ensures opportunities to support the local economy and skills development of young people are secured.
Where To Go? Buy Wales http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/ node/1413 http://www.s-p-i-n.co.uk/toolkit.asp#SocioEconomic
Planning Health Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation / Iechyd, a rhyddid rhag cam-drin a Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Access to safe modes of transport to NPHS Deprivation and the health of Young A review of safe routes to school schemes reduce incidence of RTC’s in deprived wards. could be used to extend 20mph zones across People report Council areas where there is a high density of children and young people.
Planning 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?
Where To Go?
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.
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 Provide staffed play areas - funding available schools and community clubs to provide from Big Lottery fund 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.
Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Preventing Arrears
Help to improve tenancy security and transition into stable housing by linking the council’s approach to improving financial literacy skills of vulnerable young people and families to Local Housing Allowance agenda. This could be achieved by developing working arrangements between housing departments/housing benefit administrators and financial literacy educators.
Financial Inclusion Briefing (cih)
Preventing Arrears Certain groups of young people and families are more at risk of defaulting on tenancy agreements and mortgage payments due to their poverty and level of financial literacy.
Develop good quality housing management processes to help prevent arrears developing with sensitive early intervention when arrears develop.
Strategic Housing Function Toolkit National Youth Homelessness Scheme Case Studies
Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Income Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Lack of affordable housing to rent and to Local Authorities should work with their DEFRA Report buy Registered Social Landlord partners to employ Rural Housing Enablers to tackle the barriers to developing affordable housing in rural areas Lack of affordable housing to rent and to Undertake the RTPI Cymru 'Negotiating buy Planning Agreements' training
http://www.rtpi.org.uk/download/3839/RTPIUpdate-April-2008.pdf
Lack of affordable housing to rent and to buy Authorities have improved their performance in the use of Section 106 agreements to secure affordable housing but further improvements still need to be made.
Affordable Housing Toolkit South West Good Practice Affordable Housing London JRF Understanding Planning Gain
Review the Council’s approach to affordable housing and fully utilise the Welsh Assembly Government’s “Affordable Housing Toolkit” and attempt to priorities the housing needs of families experiencing poverty.
Planning Income Maximisation / Employment / Heb fod dan anfantais o achos tlodi Income Poverty
Current Challenges Sustainable Procurement practices adopted by Councils and other public bodies can be utilised to support the local economy and worklessness.
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
https://www.buy4wales.co.uk/ Review sustainable procurement practices UsefulResources/valuewalesp.html and explore potential to support the social aspect of sustainable procurement e.g. social contracts etc.
Planning The Early Years (0-7) / Y blynyddoedd cynnar Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Transport When planning early years services transport Lack of transport often acts as a barrier to provision should be considered. taking up early years provision and parenting programmes. QCA
Where To Go?
Planning 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
Planning Health Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation / Iechyd, a rhyddid rhag cam-drin a Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Access to a safe and healthy environment It is very often the environment in which a Public Health Strategic Framework child or young person is living that can have Route to Health Improvement (WLGA) Review of school toilets (WAG &WLGA) the most impact on their health. Children living in poverty are more likely to be exposed to substandard facilities, such as school toilets or a lack of open access play areas. The public health strategic framework will set out a vision of improved public health and wellbeing for all children and young people by 2020. But for the framework to be successful action at a local level must begin now with reviews of community facilities and a better understanding of the links between wellbeing and poverty.
Planning Play Sport, Leisure and Culture / Chwarae, campau, hamdden a'r pethe Service Poverty
Current Challenges
What Can Be Done?
There are very few audits of available services mapped against deprivation indicators. This makes planning activities very difficult. Funding for play services is rarely reviewed continuing on the basis of historical information. An audit of services and funding streams would align current resources to children’s play needs
In all local authorities there is sustained investment in cultural venues. This in turn needs linking up with local community groups, school curricula and youth services to increase access and opportunity e.g. school visits to museums, hiring of mini buses via transport grants and organising walking buses. Sustainable community provision linked in with local priorities e.g. reclaiming unused land to create new play spaces by working with the environmental services and planning departments. Greater use and development of play impact assessment to support the need for increased provision. linking the wider community with educational and environmental agendas.
Where To Go? www.playwales.org.uk Play Impact Assessments Bridging the Gap –from policy to implementation working together to combat poverty (Swansea, Glasgow & Newham)
Planning Participation and Decision Making / Cymryd rhan yn y broses benderfynu Service Poverty
Current Challenges Land use Planning The Involvement of Children and young people within land use planning can bring effective results. However practice is limited.
What Can Be Done?
Where To Go?
Utilise the toolkits and review the potential for http://www.childfriendlycities.org/about/ index.html activity in your area. http://urbact.eu/fileadmin/corporate/pdf/ Toolkit_Document_ENG.pdf http://www.unesco.org/most/guic/ guiccbccy.htm http://www.nspcc Safe communitiies toolkit
Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Service Poverty
Current Challenges Child Pedestrian Injuries Child Pedestrian Injuries are strongly related to with deprivation.
What Can Be Done? Explore methods of improving road safety in disadvantaged areas. Via the NSF arrangements within key action 2.38.
Where To Go? department for transport t roadsafety research
Planning Income Maximisation / Employment / Heb fod dan anfantais o achos tlodi Service Poverty
Current Challenges Fuel Poverty
What Can Be Done? Utilise the Fuel Poverty Toolkit
Where To Go? NEA Fuel Poverty Toolkit
Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel Service Poverty
Current Challenges Play Research over recent years has repeatedly highlighted children’s declining presence in the outdoor world that was traditionally their playground. Possible causes are traffic, fear of crime, negative attitudes to children in public and planning policies that take little account of their needs.
What Can Be Done? One of the main reasons children give for not playing outdoors more is that they and their parents are afraid for their safety. Fear of strangers, traffic and bullying by other children combine to keep children in their own homes. Good play provision protects children through reducing unacceptable levels of danger, while allowing them the opportunity to challenge themselves and use their initiative
Where To Go? Child's Play: Facilitating play on housing estates Open Space and Children's Play Areas Checklist