Category

• Emerging Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Mitigation
• Awareness

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Poverty driver

• Reduce cost of living
• Increase income from benefits
• Increase employment income
• Non-driver - improving quality of life

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Keywords

• Poverty Strategy
• Multi-agency approach
• Local knowledge
• Insight data
• Monitoring and Evaluation

Aim

To develop an informative programme aimed at supporting Tameside Council’s short, medium, long term poverty strategy, and impact monitoring through an integrated multi-agency approach.

Summary

Tameside’s Poverty Needs Assessment strategy is a cross agency reaction to the post-COVID economic downturn and associated social, educational, and economic poverty. The strategy provides an easily accessible and empirically validated insight into area specific poverty instigators. Additionally, the strategy provides information on key actions taken by Tameside to help minimise the effects of a diverse array of poverty indicators, such as unemployment, low wages, increased living, energy and fuel costs, mental health, and education. The strategy was informed by a cross agency approach which utilised both lived experiences of poverty in Tameside, academia, political, and poverty related third-party input.

What difference does it make?

Tameside Council utilises a dual approach in its strategy. This facilitated the involvement of poverty sector service providers and service users across Tameside. The result is that the poverty strategy will support both micro and macro targeted interventions. Intervention can be measured within a framework of interlinked agencies. This broad and diverse scope of knowledge should allow for a more targeted approach to poverty monitoring and alleviation through targeted spending, implementation, and impact monitoring. It is too early to measure wider impacts of the strategy.

Key take-aways

• The Tameside Poverty Needs Assessment & Strategy highlights the importance of an interactive, multi-agency approach to identifying main poverty drivers in Tameside communities
• The strategy is well laid out in an accessible format.  

 

Organisations

Tameside Council

Location

Tameside Borough

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