Tackling Poverty Together Strategy 2026-2036
Our strategic commitments
The Tackling Poverty Together Partnership
We want to work together to tackle poverty in Gateshead.
The organisations that have joined the Gateshead Tackling Poverty Partnership Statement of Intent so far have agreed to the joint strategic commitments underpinning this strategy and action plan, alongside a commitment to support the delivery of actions to realise its aims.
Commitment 1: Tackling poverty is a strategic priority
Partners commit to making tackling poverty a key priority for their organisation alongside everything else they do - embedding it as a core consideration in all decision making, policy development and service design.
Commitment 2: Impact assessment in all decisions
Partners commit to considering the positive or negative impacts of all policies, strategies and services they develop, and to using this to inform their decision-making at every level. The socio-economic duty is widely adopted acknowledging the intersection with other protected characteristics.
Commitment 3: Borough-wide and partnership driven
Strategic action on poverty is embedded as part of a borough-wide, partnership driven approach to address inequality and disadvantage, improve people's standard of living, health and wellbeing, increase engagement in services and support growth of the local economy.
Partners joining the Tackling Poverty Together Partnership have made a public, accountable commitment to embed these principles in their work and to contribute actively to the collective effort to tackle poverty across Gateshead over the next decade.
