Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services

The Board were informed that in October 2013, the Community and Children’s Services Committee approved the proposal to prepare a Child Poverty Needs Assessment, which resulted from initial briefings on child poverty beginning in July 2013.

A needs assessment had now been compiled by reviewing and collating data from the Census 2011, existing research reports, and information gathered from eight key informant interviews with service providers for the City of London Corporation. The needs assessment establishes the nature and extent of need in the City, and recommends the appropriate response (next steps) to the current situation.

Resolved: That Members endorsed the formation of an officer working group to carry out “next steps” identified, and report back to committee in six months’ time.