Members of the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership met this week to deliver an interactive Child and Family Poverty workshop, in response to a recent report commissioned on the current state of child and family poverty in Cheshire and Merseyside’s nine local authority areas.
The report – ‘A rapid situational analysis on child and family poverty in Cheshire and Merseyside’ – found that the percentage of children and young people currently living in relative low-income families is higher than the rest of the country; a staggering 100,300 young people in our subregion.
The aim of the workshop, held in Liverpool, was to bring together partnership organisations to discuss turning the report’s findings into impactful, coordinated action to meet the region’s ambition of no child in Cheshire and Merseyside living in poverty.
Find out more on the work being done via our dedicated Child an Family Poverty webpage.
