It doesn’t matter how affluent a school community appears, families can be struggling financially and could benefit from entitlements and help at school. To make sure families don't miss out, good communication is key.
Understanding the challenges facing families on low incomes supports greater empathy and engagement. Promoting awareness and understanding of the challenges facing families on low incomes to everyone in your school community will help boost that knowledge.
As a way of helping to boost family incomes and reduce the impact of child poverty, school communities are increasingly offering referral pathways to welfare and money advice for families. This briefing offers examples of existing pathways and makes recommendations about how we can make sure more families are able to access help in this way.
CPAG is the UK's leading charity working to prevent child poverty. Backed by your support and donations, we have made a positive difference to hundreds of thousands of children and families living in poverty since we were set up in 1965.
We'd like to speak with parents and carers in Scotland who are on a low income and have experienced difficulties claiming universal credit and Scottish child payment.
We are keen to speak to anyone who has received a notice from the Department for Work and Pensions informing them that they need to claim universal credit.
How some schools are overcoming challenges to encouraging school meal uptake and ensuring that children and young people use their free meal allowance.
