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Driving Impact: Reducing Child Poverty through Area-Based Tactics

Explore the challenges and innovative solutions in reducing child poverty through an outcome-focused strategy. Discover the effective practices, influences, and aspirations at the Centre for Excellence in Welfare to Work. Address the barriers, access to resources, and tailored responses needed for a brighter future for one-parent families.

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Driving Impact: Reducing Child Poverty through Area-Based Tactics

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  1. area-based: outcome focused reducing child poverty tactics aspiring impacts Dr Stuart Duffin Centre for Excellence in Welfare to Work

  2. Influences on Practice I

  3. Influences on Practice II

  4. What is said about current approach? Bureaucratic + unresponsive short-term funding initiatives lack of commissioning of services Unclear Role of State and semi-state agencies Fragmented Too many pilots too little mainstreaming 4

  5. The challenges 1 • Increased risk of poverty due to dependence on welfare and no spare financial resources • Tax and welfare traps coupled with transition costs in the system that deepen poverty and exclusion • Internal barriers linked to low confidence and self-esteem • Access to high quality, flexible and affordable childcare • Low educational attainment arising from early school leaving and relevance of qualifications and skills to current labour market requirements

  6. The challenges 2 • Social isolation and lack of personal supports and networks • Access to transport to and from education, training and employment in both urban and rural areas • Access to affordable quality housing • Health challenges arising from stress, domestic violence, legal issues or a poor sense of general well-being • Reconciling work and family life

  7. Going forward • Ensuring a positive and equal future for all members of one-parent families • Supporting families as they parent through times of family, work and life change - families in transition • Delivering family centred services • Helping to enable better lives for parents and children

  8. supports • Focused specialist family support for progression to education, skill development and employment • Provision of expert parenting and family support to those parenting alone or sharing parenting • Tailored Reponses

  9. Welfare to Work

  10. from activation to welfare to work • Options Programmes • delivers accredited programmes which cover the following areas: Enterprise Skills; Work Trials; Customer Care; Essential Skills; Social Care, and others giving those parents enhanced skills for the labour-market • careerclinic • a proactive and creative approach ,7 steps careerclinicprovides participants with practical support and advice on: • career review, assessment and guidance  • CV preparation  • interview techniques  • how to capitalise on transferable skills in order to find employment • challenges and solutions in parenting alone

  11. Information • Social welfare queries • Family law issues • Parenting • Childcare • Education and employment • Finances • Community supports and services

  12. Parenting and Family Support Services • Positive Parenting • Family Communications • Child Contact Centre • Dads’ Workshops • Shared Parenting • Parent Mentoring • Solution focused counselling • General counselling • Play therapy

  13. Our model

  14. new ideas that create valuedelivering a climate for inspiration “……….enterprise and innovation are the engines of growth in the social economy”

  15. The actions • Challenge -- doing things differently • Customer Focus -- creating value • Creativity – generate possibilities • Communication -- open communication • Collaboration -- feed on interaction • Completion -- strong implementation • Contemplation -- gleaning the lessons

  16. the mix

  17. drivers-entryways to inspiring practice

  18. Principles & asset base • Long term approach has three underpinning principles: • Early intervention and prevention: breaking cycles of poor outcomes • Building on the assets of individuals and communities: moving away from a focus on deficits • Ensuring that children and families needs are at the centre of service design and delivery. • The principles of assets-based approaches include: • Emphasising and supporting assets which enhance the ability of individuals, families and neighbourhoods to sustain health and wellbeing; • Starting with what is working and what people care about; • Building networks, friendships, self-esteem and feelings of personal and collective effectiveness and connectedness; promote health and wellbeing, enable people to make sense of their environment, help them take control of their lives; and • Individuals and communities working with service providers to co-produce interventions and self-manage programmes of change.

  19. goals & tasks • maximise household resources in order to ensure that as fewchildren grow up in poor households as possible. • key outcomes: • Less families are in income poverty/material deprivation (including in-work poverty) • More parents are in good quality employment • More families are financially capable and included

  20. 10-Point Anti-Poverty Strategy Summary: • Monitoring and recording • Community participation • Community-based approaches • Integration into mainstream programmes • Recognition of limitations: • Partnerships

  21. Where to find us www.onefamily.ie Facebook Twitter Or 01 6629212

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