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Insights into childhood poverty and how paediatric services are experienced by those with the least resources – and what we can do to help.

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Children North East’s Poverty Proofing© is a powerful method that is used to educate and support professionals to spot and reduce the impact of poverty.

Poverty Proofing Health advocates for equity of access to healthcare and to improve health outcomes for those living in poverty.

Thanks to the Royal College of Paediatric Child Health (RCPCH), Children North East are rolling out bespoke Poverty Proofing© training to all healthcare professionals working with children and young people in diabetes care.

Poverty Proofing© Paediatric Diabetes – National Training Roll-out

Attending as a network and with colleagues from the same service will give clinicians the time and space to consider actions that can be taken away and how to implement meaningful change within their own practice.

Learning Intentions

• Understand diabetes withing the context of childhood poverty
• Understand the ethos and principles behind Poverty Proofing© diabetes care
• Workshop some of the most common themes and barriers to accessing diabetes care through a poverty lens
• Understand how these apply in the context of your setting
• Identify key actions – what you can do now and what you can advocate for.
• Share promising practice, network and learn from others
• Gain resources and practical tools to help

Note

Please join the session for your network.

If an alternative date is needed, please contact us at povertyproofinginfo@children-ne.org.uk and we will try to accommodate.This is new training for 2024/25 and builds on any Poverty Proofing training you may have previously attended.

Register link:Poverty Proofing© Paediatric Diabetes National Training – WALES Tickets, Fri 16 May 2025 at 09:30 | Eventbrite