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The role of assets in child poverty strategies

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08 December 2009

1:00pm – 2:30pm

ippr, 30-32 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA

With:

Professor Julian Le Grand, LSE
Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, LSE and the Open University
David White, The Children’s Mutual

Child poverty is almost exclusively measured in terms of income, which has driven a government strategy centred on increasing parental employment and enhancing the benefits and tax credits paid to families with children. Little consideration has been given to how savings and asset policies like the Child Trust Fund can play their part in tackling child poverty.

This seminar will consider how assets can be more fully incorporated into child poverty strategies, as well as the challenges that such an approach might create. We will look at the Welsh Assembly’s inclusion of the Child Trust Fund in its child poverty strategy and the lessons for the other countries of the UK. We also discuss the effect of the financial crisis on people’s faith in assets and financial institutions, and the implications for the role of assets in child poverty strategies.

This event is kindly sponsored by the ESRC.

To reserve a place, please email k.lawton@ippr.org or call 020 7470 6169.