Financial Inclusion
Talking about poverty at school – new activities for Challenge Poverty Week
The Child Poverty Action Group have developed a set of activities designed to get your school community thinking and talking about poverty during Challenge Poverty Week: We have a brand-new set of Cost of the School Day activities designed to get school communities thinking and talking about poverty
Why we want to get everyone talking about poverty
Last year, over 5000 children and young people shared their views in the Cost of the School Day Big Question. They said that it’s important we talk more about poverty to help remove stigma and raise awareness of help that’s available at school – so that’s what we’re doing this Challenge Poverty Week.
Activities
We’ve got four Talking about Poverty activities to try out. Each activity works well on its own or as part of a set.
- Talking to politicians and the government Work together to come up with a question or something you would like to tell politicians and the people in charge of education – we’ll pass everything along.
- Talking to each other about costs at school Find out what other pupils in your school think about school costs and the help people can get with them. What are things like, and what could be better?
- Talking to your headteacher Interview your headteacher to find out what your school is doing to challenge poverty, then work together to come up with a Cost of the School Day pledge for your school!
- Talking to your school community Create some eye-catching posters to help everyone in your school community understand what support is on offer and how to access it.
All of these Challenge Poverty Week activities can be found on the CPAG website
Together with the Poverty Alliance, Dumfries and Galloway Council and the Dumfries and Galloway Poverty and Inequalities Partnership produced a week-long programme of video’s, downloadable information and events for Challenge Poverty Week. You can find a copy of the full programme on the Challenge Poverty Webpage – https://dumgal.gov.uk/CPW2024
Through Young Eyes
The Council’s Youth Work Team supported a group of young people in Dumfries and Galloway to produce a short film, ‘Through Young Eyes’, that explores how young people in our region perceive poverty, and their own lived experiences of poverty.
Through Young Eyes is available here:
