IPPR North worked with the North East Child Poverty Commission (NECPC) to publish Child Poverty and Devolution in North East England in September 2020.
The report called on local, regional and national leaders to make ending child poverty their priority. It recommended addressing child poverty be embedded into future devolution deals, and the levers of devolution be used to help support parents into good quality work, through employment programmes and accessible childcare. It also urged combined authorities in the region to create and prioritise programmes that address child and family poverty, co-ordinate action between local authorities, and work in partnership with schools, local institutions and communities.
Since then, two things have happened.
