Best Start, Bright Future – a Poverty Alliance Webinar
Monday 6 June 2022: 10am – 1pm
Scotland is a country where compassion is strong, but where child poverty is an ongoing injustice that we have to end together.
Best Start, Bright Future, the Scottish Government’s Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, was published at the end of March. It’s designed to help create the change we need to drive down child poverty and reach Scotland’s interim child poverty targets in 2024.
There are a lot of commitments in the plan, and we are hosting a special morning webinar to explore how we can make sure they are implemented, and how they can best deliver practical change in our communities.
The plan includes pledges to: increase the level of the Scottish Child Payment; create a new employability offer to help parents get into work, and; mitigation of the benefit cap.
There is lot more besides, and Best Start, Bright Futures will touch on all areas of anti-poverty activity in Scotland. It is crucial for groups and organisations across the country to understand what it all means for their work.
Please join us for a morning of discussion on how we can all work together to ensure that the ambition contained in the plan is delivered.
Agenda
10:00 Welcome Peter Kelly, Director, the Poverty Alliance
10:05 Best Start, Bright Futures: What you need to know!
Julie Humphreys, Deputy Director, Tackling Child Poverty & Financial Wellbeing, Scottish Government
10:20 From Plan to Practice: Perspectives on Best Start, Bright Futures
Professor Morag Treanor, Deputy Chair, Poverty and Inequality Commission
John Dickie, Director, Child Poverty Action Group Scotland
Bruce Adamson, Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland
10:50 Panel Discussion
11:15 Comfort Break
11.30 Workshops
1. Making Employability Work for Priority Group Families
- Jack Evans, Policy Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Laura Millar, Strategic Manager, Fife Gingerbread
2. Social security: Priorities for tackling poverty
- Tressa Burke, CEO, Glasgow Disability Alliance (tbc)
- Polly Jones, Head of Scotland, Trussell Trust (tbc)
3. Childcare and Child Poverty – Meeting the Challenges
- Anna Ritchie Allan, Executive Director, Close the Gap (tbc)
- Satwat Rehman, Chief Executive, One Parent Families Scotland (tbc)
12.30: Feedback from groups and concluding remarks
13:00 Close