Their involvement is needed as part of measures to ramp up community engagement in schemes to reduce child poverty, says the report.
This should also involve a wide range of community figures and professionals including school staff, mental health specialists, experts in nutrition and children’s rights advisors.
The report argues that current programmes to tackle child poverty “fall short” in offering “wrap around support”.
The “multiple interventions” these schemes put in place are often “less effective for a family in deep poverty than a holistic approach, which joins up the system”, says the report, published by think tank New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and commissioned by the charity Ethos Foundation.
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