Children North East have created these guides for schools to help them support pupils and families who are experiencing poverty or facing financial hardship. With funding from Kavli, we have been able to develop our school day work and extend our learnings nationwide.
Download the below guides, and share with your school networks. If you’re interested in working with us, contact us on [email protected]
We work with educational settings to ensure that there is equity of opportunity for all pupils to take part in a wide, rich set of experiences. These experiences provide pupils with the cultural capital that will help them to navigate a range of social situations and thrive in life.
Top Tips for Providing Primary School Resources
By being able to fully participate without worrying about missing items, pupils are better able to focus, learn and achieve which improves their settling in to primary school.
Top Tips for Providing Secondary School Resources
By being able to fully participate without worrying about missing items, pupils are better able to focus, learn and achieve which improves their performance in secondary school.
All Aboard the School Bus: the hidden barriers to school transport
When working with educational settings we look to understand the methods of transport used, walking routes, student safety to and from school and how they access provision outside of school.
Food for Thought: the hidden barriers to food provision in school
In our Poverty Proofing work within educational settings, we explore how pupils access food during the school day.
The Cost of Uniformity: the hidden barriers to school uniform
In our Poverty Proofing work within educational settings, we seek to understand how school uniform and PE kit is supplied, the cost implications for families and the expectations that each individual setting has.
Top tips on inclusive fundraising for PTAs and Schools.
Poverty Proofing© Keelmansway Case Study
“It's given us the research and an actual background to go to them with a problem and say look, we need to challenge this.”
Poverty Proofing® Work Experience – A Guide for Schools
We have developed this guide for all schools to consider when they are offering a work experience opportunity to a young person.
Poverty Proofing® Work Experience – A Guide for Employers
We have developed this guide for all employers to make work experience, internships, supported internships and other forms of engagement with young people as accessible as possible.
Kavli
With thanks to Kavli for funding our Poverty Proofing© the School Day work.
