Centre for Public Policy Seminars - How can we most effectively tackle child poverty and underachievement?

Issues covered in the seminar:

• To what extent does child and family poverty contribute to both alienation and underachievement?
• How should national policy most effectively tackle causes and outcomes of child and family poverty
• What more should central government be doing with finance and strategic leadership?
• What more should local government be doing in leading local action and providing effective services?
• What more should schools be doing to ensure pupils from poor backgrounds achieve their full potential?
• What more should both the private and third sectors be doing in providing jobs and services?
• What more should pupil referral units do and how better should their pupils be integrated into the mainstream?
• What more should be done to tackle the issues of young runaways?
• Where can we hope to be in ten years time?

For full details of this event and to book a place please visit the CPPS website