About our plan to reduce and prevent poverty
The Greenwich Supports strategy explains what we’re going to do to prevent and reduce poverty in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. It builds on the existing Greenwich Supports information while reimagining it with a more preventative, holistic approach to poverty reduction.
We want to work together with our residents, partners and staff to support people across the Royal Borough of Greenwich to live happier, longer, more fulfilling lives where fewer people experience poverty, hardship or inequality.
It aims to help deliver the missions set out in Our Greenwich and builds on that plan.
Responding to the poverty situation in the UK and local area, the strategy sets out priorities around three strategic intentions. We will be working together with our residents, partners and staff to support people to:
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Lessen the impact of poverty and the chances that the situation will worsen
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Prevent people from falling into poverty
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Address other risk factors and causes of poverty
Download the full Greenwich Supports strategy
How this strategy was created
This strategy is informed by:
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poverty data in Greenwich and the UK
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collective reflection of the strengths and gaps of local support on offer
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engagement with residents, partners, staff and elected members.
It draws on national studies and similar local authority strategies, using a human-centred, co-creative, and strengths-based approach.
Developed by multidisciplinary council teams, it combines expertise in project design, research, policy, economics and management.
The strategy follows ethical research methods, formal consent procedures, and GDPR compliance, using open, kind, and non-judgemental approaches to understand people’s stories, with appropriate incentives.