Thurrock

In Thurrock in 2011 and 2012, Capacity supported Thurrock Council to tackle child poverty by:

• Undertaking the Child Poverty Needs Analysis
• Helping to draft an effective strategy to tackle child poverty
• Providing training in understanding poverty

Capacity provided training for more than fifty frontline staff and managers, to raise awareness of the causes of poverty and enable participants to consider their roles in making the strategy work.

Redbridge

More than twenty managers attended a day conference to focus on child poverty and how children's centres and other services could make a contribution to reducing and mitigating child poverty within the borough.

Training was subsequently provided to child care settings and childminders, often a first or main point of contact with families.

Richmond upon Thames

Over a period of a year Capacity provided training for multi-agency staff and voluntary sector partners to raise awareness of the causes and impacts of poverty.

Richmond is one of the most affluent local authorities in the South-East, but has small pockets of deprivation. The feedback from training sessions suggested that staff had improved their understanding of poverty and gathered practical ideas for tackling it in their communities.

Capacity is a member of End Child Poverty