Friday 16 September 2016
As part of NHS Health Scotland’s strategic direction to reduce health inequalities in Scotland, a priority area is helping to eradicate child poverty.
Key areas to address child poverty are increasing incomes, reducing outgoings, mitigating the impact through for example improving housing, and reducing inequity. To focus on one key area of reducing inequalities, NHS Health Scotland has carried out some work looking at financial inclusion projects across Scotland.
To help create a more consistent picture of provision and to increase equal access for everyone to financial inclusion services, they have created a financial Inclusion Toolkit to support professionals in achieving this.
The toolkit provides practical support to professionals developing or improving partnership working between early years and money advice services. It’s aimed at professionals working with pregnant women and families with young children as a partnership model between the advice services and the NHS to provide advice on the back of health services the patient has already engaged with, in a setting they are familiar with.
A link to the toolkit can be found here.
The toolkit seeks to contribute to the following key principles:
