Tackling Poverty Together Strategy 2026-2036
Our core aims
The Tackling Poverty Together Partnership has agreed five core aims to guide the focus and priorities in the strategy and action plan. These aims provide a clear and coherent framework - from immediate protection through to long-term systemic change - ensuring that our collective effort is purposeful, coordinated and measurable. Together, they represent the full ambition of this ten-year strategy:
- protect people in poverty
- prevent people falling (further) into poverty
- provide pathways out of poverty
- ensure participation in communities
- build partnership with impact
The five aims are intentionally interconnected:
- protection addresses immediate need and prevents harm from deepening
- prevention tackles the conditions that push people into poverty in the first place
- pathways create sustainable routes to stability and independence
- participation ensures that people experiencing poverty are not passive recipients of support but active agents in their own lives and in shaping the borough's future
- the Partnership aim ensures that all of this is delivered through a coordinated, accountable and continuously improving system
