Maximising the impact of local responses to poverty

GMPA (now ) has been supporting local authorities in Greater Manchester and across the country to introduce anti-poverty strategies. What role do local anti-poverty strategies play in helping individuals and communities? What can be learned from work that is currently being done? And what makes a good strategy?

By Graham Whitham and Penny Rimmer

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Maximising the impact of local responses to poverty

GMPA (now Resolve Poverty) has been supporting local authorities in Greater Manchester and across the country to introduce anti-poverty strategies. What role do local anti-poverty strategies play in helping individuals and communities? What can be learned from work that is currently being done? And what makes a good strategy?

By Graham Whitham and Penny Rimmer

Issue: Issue 176 (October 2023)

Poverty

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