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Tackling Poverty

Tackling Poverty
Reducing poverty, particularly persistent poverty, in some of our poorest areas and communities is at the centre of the Welsh Government’s policy agenda.

Tackling Child Poverty: Guidance and Regulations for Welsh Authorities

Tackling Child Poverty: Guidance and Regulations for Welsh Authorities
Details of the duties placed upon those public bodies, and the regulations set out the format, timings, consultation and review processes for their child poverty strategies.

Children and Families (Wales) Measure 2010

The Children and Families (Wales) Measure was passed by the National Assembly for Wales 10 November 2009.

A Fair Future for Our Children

A Fair Future for Our Children
The first strategy of the Welsh Assembly Government for tackling child poverty.

Core Aim 7: Freedom from poverty

Data sources available on children and young people to support monitoring of Core Aim 7.

UNCRC

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
Protecting the human rights of children under the age of 18.
Children holding hands

Eradicating child poverty by 2020 remains a fundamental priority for the Welsh Government and this commitment is reflected in the Tackling Poverty Action Plan for Wales.

We recognise that to tackle Child Poverty we must also tackle Poverty as a whole, which includes working with children, young people and adults.

The Tackling Poverty Action Plan brings together the contributions made by the Welsh Government as a whole, while keeping a strong focus on child poverty.

The Tackling Poverty Action Plan incorporates the three strategic objectives contained within the Child Poverty Strategy 2010.