Planning

Planning The Early Years (0-7) / Y blynyddoedd cynnar

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Preventing Arrears Develop sensitive recovery arrangements for rent arrears and evictions to ensure that vulnerable groups are not placed at greater risk and review the approach to supporting vulnerable groups in tenancies.

Exeter guidance on Rent Arrears Recovery

Lack of affordable housing to rent and to buy

Local Authorities could consider using the income generated by the s106 process to employ an affordable housing officer to maximise the amount of affordable housing that can be gained from the planning process.

106 Agreement Toolkit

Planning Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Sustainable Procurement In 2005 it was estimated that 35% of the £4 billion spent each year by the public sector in Wales was won by indigenous business supporting some 70,000 jobs. Every 1% increase to this figure should relate to an increase of some 2,000 jobs.

Develop a common partnership approach to sustainable procurement that ensures opportunities to support the local economy and skills development of young people are secured.

Buy Wales http://www.forumforthefuture.org.uk/node/1413 http://www.s-p-i-n.co.uk/toolkit.asp#Socio-Economic

Planning Health Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation / Iechyd, a rhyddid rhag cam-drin a

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Access to safe modes of transport to reduce incidence of RTC’s in deprived wards.

A review of safe routes to school schemes could be used to extend 20mph zones across Council areas where there is a high density of children and young people.

NPHS Deprivation and the health of Young People report

Planning Play Sport, Leisure and Culture / Chwarae campau, hamdden a’r pethe

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Engaging children, young people and their families in arts, culture and leisure when there are significant financial barriers.

Maximise use of community settings e.g. integrated children’s centres or community schools to provide subsidised activities. Access extracurricular provision through programmes such as Dragon Sport and 5x60, in which teachers and volunteers provide activity sessions free of charge or at minimal cost. Provide staffed play areas - funding available from Big Lottery fund

The Community Builders Handbook Arts Council Wales fund community arts and dance organisations across Wales who aim to engage children from deprived communities. Sports Council for Wales employ Dragon Sport Coordinators based in local authorities across Wales. The Coordinators work with schools and community clubs to provide opportunities for 7-11 year olds http://www.dragonsport.co.uk 5x60 officers are funded through the Sports Council for Wales to provide extracurricular sport sessions for secondary school pupils.

Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Preventing Arrears Help to improve tenancy security and transition into stable housing by linking the council’s approach to improving financial literacy skills of vulnerable young people and families to Local Housing Allowance agenda. This could be achieved by developing working arrangements between housing departments/housing benefit administrators and financial literacy educators.

Financial Inclusion Briefing (cih)

Preventing Arrears Certain groups of young people and families are more at risk of defaulting on tenancy agreements and mortgage payments due to their poverty and level of financial literacy.

Develop good quality housing management processes to help prevent arrears developing with sensitive early intervention when arrears develop.

Strategic Housing Function Toolkit National Youth Homelessness Scheme Case Studies

Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Lack of affordable housing to rent and to buy

Local Authorities should work with their Registered Social Landlord partners to employ Rural Housing Enablers to tackle the barriers to developing affordable housing in rural areas

DEFRA Report

Lack of affordable housing to rent and to buy

Undertake the RTPI Cymru 'Negotiating Planning Agreements' training

http://www.rtpi.org.uk/download/3839/RTPI-Update-April-2008.pdf

Lack of affordable housing to rent and to buy Authorities have improved their performance in the use of Section 106 agreements to secure affordable housing but further improvements still need to be made.

Review the Council’s approach to affordable housing and fully utilise the Welsh Assembly Government’s “Affordable Housing Toolkit” and attempt to priorities the housing needs of families experiencing poverty.

Affordable Housing Toolkit South West Good Practice Affordable Housing London JRF Understanding Planning Gain

Planning Income Maximisation / Employment / Heb fod dan anfantais o achos tlodi

Income Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Sustainable Procurement practices adopted by Councils and other public bodies can be utilised to support the local economy and worklessness.

Review sustainable procurement practices and explore potential to support the social aspect of sustainable procurement e.g. social contracts etc.

https://www.buy4wales.co.uk/UsefulResources/valuewalesp.html

Planning The Early Years (0-7) / Y blynyddoedd cynnar

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Transport Lack of transport often acts as a barrier to taking up early years provision and parenting programmes. QCA

When planning early years services transport provision should be considered.

Planning Education and Learning Opportunities / Addysg

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Working with others Consider bringing in role models to show people from their own background that can be successful.

http://www.infed.org/biblio/role_model_education.htm http://www.teachers.tv/video/244

Planning Health Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation / Iechyd, a rhyddid rhag cam-drin a

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Access to a safe and healthy environment It is very often the environment in which a child or young person is living that can have the most impact on their health. Children living in poverty are more likely to be exposed to substandard facilities, such as school toilets or a lack of open access play areas. The public health strategic framework will set out a vision of improved public health and wellbeing for all children and young people by 2020. But for the framework to be successful action at a local level must begin now with reviews of community facilities and a better understanding of the links between wellbeing and poverty.

Public Health Strategic Framework Route to Health Improvement (WLGA) Review of school toilets (WAG &WLGA)

Planning Play Sport, Leisure and Culture / Chwarae, campau, hamdden a'r pethe

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

There are very few audits of available services mapped against deprivation indicators. This makes planning activities very difficult. Funding for play services is rarely reviewed continuing on the basis of historical information. An audit of services and funding streams would align current resources to children’s play needs

In all local authorities there is sustained investment in cultural venues. This in turn needs linking up with local community groups, school curricula and youth services to increase access and opportunity e.g. school visits to museums, hiring of mini buses via transport grants and organising walking buses. Sustainable community provision linked in with local priorities e.g. reclaiming unused land to create new play spaces by working with the environmental services and planning departments. Greater use and development of play impact assessment to support the need for increased provision. linking the wider community with educational and environmental agendas.

www.playwales.org.uk Play Impact Assessments Bridging the Gap –from policy to implementation working together to combat poverty (Swansea, Glasgow & Newham)

Planning Participation and Decision Making / Cymryd rhan yn y broses benderfynu

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Land use Planning The Involvement of Children and young people within land use planning can bring effective results. However practice is limited.

Utilise the toolkits and review the potential for activity in your area.

http://www.childfriendlycities.org/about/index.html http://urbact.eu/fileadmin/corporate/pdf/Toolkit_Document_ENG.pdf http://www.unesco.org/most/guic/guiccbccy.htm http://www.nspcc Safe communitiies tool-kit

Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Child Pedestrian Injuries Child Pedestrian Injuries are strongly related to with deprivation.

Explore methods of improving road safety in disadvantaged areas. Via the NSF arrangements within key action 2.38.

department for transport t roadsafety re-search

Planning Income Maximisation / Employment / Heb fod dan anfantais o achos tlodi

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Fuel Poverty Utilise the Fuel Poverty Toolkit NEA Fuel Poverty Toolkit

Planning A Safe Home and Community / Cartrefi a chymunedau diogel

Service Poverty

Current Challenges What Can Be Done? Where To Go?

Play Research over recent years has repeatedly highlighted children’s declining presence in the outdoor world that was traditionally their playground. Possible causes are traffic, fear of crime, negative attitudes to children in public and planning policies that take little account of their needs.

One of the main reasons children give for not playing outdoors more is that they and their parents are afraid for their safety. Fear of strangers, traffic and bullying by other children combine to keep children in their own homes. Good play provision protects children through reducing unacceptable levels of danger, while allowing them the opportunity to challenge themselves and use their initiative

Child's Play: Facilitating play on housing estates Open Space and Children's Play Areas Checklist