AN educational toolkit aimed at combating the effects of poverty is to be rolled out widely across the region early next year.
Toolkits bring together free resources available to support practitioners or teachers, and this is being seen as the perfect next step on the back of the recent release of the child poverty documentary.
The group of teens involved in creating the short film are now working alongside the council’s youth services team to produce a kit which can not only inform people around child poverty, but help signpost them towards support services.
At Dumfries and Galloway Council’s tackling poverty, inequalities, and housing committee on Tuesday, Mark Molloy, a youth services manager, said he would work with the council’s communications team around getting the message out to the wider population.
Stephen Morgan, the council’s chief social work officer, said: “I’ve been really struck by the presentation and the video.
“I can resonate with a lot of it, having been brought up in poverty as a child myself.
“In terms of communication, I think it’s essential that we get the toolkit and the film to the council’s senior leadership team and the council’s management team as well.
“This is so that senior officers, as well as councillors, are well aware of this because poverty cuts across everything that the council does.”
