Child & Family Poverty Survey Report: Can you spare a few minutes?
Our Child & Family Poverty Survey is answered by practitioners and professionals who collectively work with a minimum of 110,000 families and their children across Wales.
Each year we produce a report based on the findings to understand how they are being used. Your feedback is very important to us and the quality of the report. Our aim is to make the report as useful as possible and your feedback will help to inform this. Please provide your feedback and thoughts.
Latest figures show that 28% of children in Wales are living in poverty. Children are said to be living in poverty if they live in families with an income below 60% of the median income. Poverty can have a devastating effect on a child’s life chances, having a negative impact on their education, health and overall wellbeing. Their future housing and employment prospects can also be negatively impacted upon.
Children in Wales continues to work to prevent and reduce the levels of child poverty, and mitigate the impact on children, young people and their families.
Children in Wales’ work in this area includes:
- Coordinating the End Child Poverty Network Cymru, as the national alliance for tackling child poverty in Wales
- Proactively engaging with Welsh Government, Children’s Commissioner for Wales and other external stakeholders in Wales, including through our involvement in strategic working groups.
- Manage projects which directly engage and build the capacity of organisations to take steps to support children from low income families
- Working with our member organisations to produce reports and publications, including our Annual Child Poverty Survey in Wales.
- Deliver national and regional child poverty events
- Deliver training to professionals on the impact of child poverty in Wales
- Campaign to end child poverty at a UK level
Annual Child & Family Poverty Surveys 2024
Now Closed
Each year, Children in Wales, in partnership with the End Child Poverty Network Cymru (ECPN), conduct the Child & Family Poverty Surveys. We are now in our 8th year.
The findings from these surveys help us to identify and understand more about the current issues and impact poverty has on children, young people and families in Wales. Your experiences and views will help us identify and share this information widely.
Your voices really do make a difference. For example, last year’s survey findings were widely disseminated and used to influence, inform and change practice and policy across Wales. They were also used for reports by Public Health Wales and to inform the new Child Poverty Strategy, launched in January 2024.
Whatever your role or sector, your experiences and views are greatly valued and important to us. Whether you’re a practitioner, educator, policy maker or manager, if your role includes a remit for children, young people and families, then we want to hear from you.
We will publish and share the findings in October
Our aim is that the findings will again help to shape and inform policy and practice in Wales.
Thank you for your support.