Rural child poverty webinar for community councillors

The Improvement Service is hosting a free webinar on rural child poverty for community councillors on Tuesday 20th June from 3pm to 4pm.

The combination of COVID 19 and the cost-of-living crisis has put enormous pressure on already stretched family budgets, not least in remote, rural and island authorities. This comes at a time when the Scottish Government has pledged to significantly reduce child poverty across Scotland by 2030. 

This webinar will explore what all this means for Scotland's children and what community councils can do to ensure they are reflecting the changing needs of the areas and the people they represent. The session will cover:

• What we mean by child poverty and how national and local government are acting to address it
• The additional barriers to inclusion and empowerment that exist in remote, rural and island areas
• How community councils can make themselves as open, accessible and representative as possible to those experiencing poverty

The webinar will include input from people with direct experience of poverty. It will also draw on learning from the Poverty Alliance, Aberdeenshire Council and the Improvement Service