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What Works in Tackling Poverty Beth sy’n gweithio wrth daclo tlodi Launch Lansiad www.ppiw.org.uk

Professor Steve Martin Director, Public Policy Institute for Wales

Four key themes  Promoting Prosperity  Reforming Public services  Tackling Poverty  Transmitting good Practice

Using evidence to improve policy  Advise Ministers on their knowledge needs  Encourage independent experts to be aware of and responsive to policy needs in Wales  Connect Wales with the What Works network  Coordinate What Works in Tackling Poverty

What works in tackling poverty  Open call, UK wide  Add to knowledge about what works  Significant, salient and scalable solutions  Cross- jurisdictional learning  Different tiers of government (separately and together) and non-state actors  Direct access to Welsh Ministers

Julia Unwin CBE Chief Executive, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Maureen Howell Deputy Director, Tackling Poverty Division, Welsh Government

Welsh Government Approach to Corporate slide master With guidelines for corporate presentations Tackling Poverty Gwerthfawrogi Pobl / Valuing People

“The creation of the Public Policy Institute for Wales is an exciting and innovative approach that which gives Ministers direct access to independent expert advice. It reflects the growing recognition, in Wales and around the world, that evidence and knowledge derived from research can play an important part in helping to improve policy decisions.” - First Minister “Tackling Poverty - We know we will have to make some tough choices and we will be guided by evidence of what is likely to have the most positive impact for people in Wales, both now and in the future”. – Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty & Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty

Tackling Poverty Policy: Background • 2005 - Child Poverty Strategy, – commitment to support the UK Government in the eradication of child poverty by 2020 • 2010 - Children and Families (Wales) Measure − placed a duty on Welsh Ministers to publish a new Child Poverty Strategy • Child Poverty Strategy, 2011 – setting out its commitment and aspiration to eradicate child poverty by 2020 • 2012 & 2013 Tackling Poverty Action Plan

Policy Focus in Wales Helping Preventing people into Poverty work Tackling Poverty Mitigating the impact of poverty

Poverty in Wales • 1 in 3 children • 1 in 4 adults Tackling Poverty Action Plan • Sets targets and milestones • Embed agenda across all departments

Deputy Ministers’ Priorities • Early Years • Educational Attainment Gap • NEETs • Inverse Care Law • Tackling Workless Households • Housing and Regeneration

Partnership Working Tackling Poverty Tackling Poverty External Advisory Implementation Group Board Knowledge and End Child Poverty Deputy Analytical Services Network / Third Minister for - Research Sector Tackling Community Poverty Welsh Government Local Authority Anti Tackling Poverty Poverty Champions Champions

The Challenges • Wider UK / Global Economy. • Non-devolved Policy Levers. • Firefighting effect of UK changes to Welfare Reform – limiting time on prevention agenda. • Pressure on WG funded services / programmes (reducing budgets). • Capturing information / data sharing. • In-work poverty / rural poverty / persistent poverty.

Why Evidence on What Works is Essential… • Reducing budgets – making evidenced based decisions on where to invest. • Need to use all available levers to tackle poverty in Wales. • Strong emphasis on supporting households to achieve better outcomes: What works best…? • Households living in poverty are not a homogenous group. • Supporting those with protected characteristics is essential. • Poverty during the life cycle.

Diolch yn fawr / Thank you Maureen Howell Corporate slide master Deputy Director, Tackling Poverty With guidelines for corporate presentations Welsh Government Gwerthfawrogi Pobl / Valuing People

Professor Paul Gregg Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission

Child Poverty and Social Mobility Professor Paul Gregg Commissioner 15 April 2014 web: www.gov.uk/smcpcommission @smcpcommission

15 years on since Blair’s commitment to end child poverty by 2020, there still remains work to do “ And I will set out our historic aim that ours is the first generation to end child poverty forever, and it will take a generation. It is a 20 year mission but I believe it can be done” Tony Blair

The problem: over the last 50 years, mobility and opportunity has stagnated Today’s CEOS rode a • For the generations born in 1958 and 1970, economists have wave of opportunity in found top professions like law, banking, and accountancy becoming more socially exclusive – even as IQs become more the 1960s with many like the norm. the first to go to • Cross- national studies find the link between parents’ and University… children’s income is 1.5 times higher in the UK than Canada, Sweden, Germany and Australia. ...but in the decades • Today, three years out of University, graduates who went to an since mobility has independent school are 9% more likely to be in a top job than stagnated. identically qualified state school graduates. • 1 in 5 workers was low paid in 2013, up from 1 in 7 in the 1970s* And life is becoming • Recent research finds that three quarters of workers in low harder for those pay in 2002 failed to escape from it over the next decade. entering the labour • Over half of working age adults in poverty, and two thirds of market, and in ordinary children in poverty are in households where at least one adult jobs. works. In three-quarters of these cases, they work full-time. • Nearly a million young people are unemployed and long-term youth unemployment (2 years plus) is at a 20 year high. *Low pay here means less than two-thirds of gross hourly median income - £7.44 an hour.

Commission: purpose, vision and structure • The Commission is an independent body, There are 10 Commissioners from a diversity of established in statute to monitor progress backgrounds including politics, business, academia, in improving social mobility and reducing charities and civil society: child poverty in the United Kingdom , and • to support and encourage business, the The Rt Hon Alan Milburn (Chair) • professions, Universities and others to The Rt Hon Baroness Gillian Shephard (Deputy) • improve performance on social mobility. Tom Attwood , Non Executive Director at the Centre for Social Justice and formerly Managing Director of • Our vision is a society where the life the Intermediate Capital Group • chances of individuals do not depend on the Paul Cleal , Government & Public Sector Leader at accident of their circumstances at birth, PwC • Anne Marie Carrie , Chief Executive of Kensington where every individual is able to make the most of their talents. and Chelsea Education Ltd • Paul Gregg , Professor of Economic and Social • Commissioners are supported by a small Policy, University of Bath • secretariat. We have formal accountability to Christian Guy , Director, Centre for Social Justice three Ministers – the Deputy Prime Minister, • Douglas Hamilton , Director, RS Macdonald the Secretary of State for Work and Charitable Trust • Pensions, and the Minister of State for David Johnston , Chief Executive, Social Mobility Schools and the Cabinet Office. Foundation • Catriona Williams OBE, Chief Executive, Children in Wales

We cover four key areas relating to child poverty and social mobility, and publish our work extensively Our key activities Over five publications launched each 1. State of We make an independent annual the Nation report monitoring the progress aimed at creating change in government, Report made by government, business business and education (HE, FE and and others on reducing child schools): poverty and improving social mobility, laid before Parliament. Annual Report: State of the Nation 2013 (28 2. Social We undertake advocacy to November 2013) mobility support and encourage business, advocacy Universities and others to improve Business and Social Mobility: a Manifesto for their performance on social Change (7 October 2013) mobility: for example, carrying out analysis, and making the business Social mobility: the next steps for government case for action. (10 September 2013) 3. Advice to We provide expert advice to Higher Education: the Fair Access Challenge Ministers Ministers on request - covering (10 September 2013) both activities to improve performance, and questions of Measuring child poverty: Commission response measurement. All advice is (15 February 2013) published. 4. Research We undertake and commission research, with Ministerial agreement, in support of our other activities.

Equality of Opportunity and Equality of outcome are different concepts but they are strongly linked The chart shows countries with low levels of inequality have some of the greatest mobility, while the two countries with the high level of had some of the lowest mobility. The UK could do much better.