• Cripplegate Foundation
• Close to home, Oxfam, March 2009
• The London Child Poverty Network, Government Office for London and London Councils, May 2009 

The London Child Poverty Network, Government Office for London and London Councils, May 2009

• encourage and stimulate ideas
• enable information and knowledge sharing
• showcase best practice
• provide networking opportunities for members
• raise and promote awareness and understanding of child poverty
• identify barriers and solutions to service delivery
• enable the Child Poverty Unit and others to have direct dialogue with key stakeholders
• enable development of specific work on targeted client groups / areas
• encourage and develop work to deliver the London child poverty target support cross cutting and cross sector working between LAs / LSPs , CPU, GOL etc
• encourage and support delivery of the London Child Poverty Pledge
• influence and feedback stakeholder views to Government and vice versa

Cripplegate Foundation

Invisible Islington: living in poverty in Inner London
Executive summary
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Invisible Islington: living in poverty in Inner London
Full report
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For further information please contact Kristina Glenn 

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Close to home, Oxfam, March 2009

The UK is in recession, and things stand to get much worse for the fifth of the population already living in poverty, and for the millions more whose livelihoods will become more vulnerable as a result. The UK government has recognised its responsibility to help people through the recession, but needs to do more to help the poorest, and to provide security for all. As importantly, policy makers need to take the opportunity that the recession provides to rethink many of the policies of the past decades. This paper from Oxfam GB sets out a pro-poor policy response to the recession that lays down the foundations for a more equitable, sustainable society.

To read more click here

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Invisible Islington: Living in Poverty in Inner London
A report for Cripplegate Foundation by Rocket Science UK Ltd

To understand the factors that have contributed to the economic gulf between the very wealthy and the very poor residents of Islington, 29 local residents were interviewed about the effects that poverty has on their lives.  Ill health, debt, isolation and lack of opportunity have entrenched the situation.  Local policy-makers and those involved in tackling the inequalities were also interviewed in order to re-think the actions needed to tackle it.