Key Actions to Enable This Approach

In order to embed take up work within an integrated and personalised

package of
support, local authorities and partners will need to:
Have a joined-up approach to take up at a strategic level that can
drive forward jointcommissioning
for take up activity. To achieve this it may be necessary to build a local
business case that can be used to gain the necessary engagement of
all services and
partners needed to provide a holistic package of support. Maximising
parent income
can make a contribution to a number of high-level strategic objectives
including:
Tackling child poverty by focusing on increasing take up of
benefits and tax
credits by parents, children can be both lifted out of poverty, and
prevented from
falling into poverty.
Improving health and wellbeing it is well established that
children from
disadvantaged groups are more likely to have poorer health outcomes
than those
from more affluent groups. By working to maximise parent income, a
contribution
can be made to tackling health inequalities.
Promoting inclusive communities action to increase take up
will help to
increase contact with, and support given to, families that are hard to
reach and
vulnerable to social exclusion.
Bringing additional income into the local economy money
that is awarded
to families with children is likely to be spent in the local area, which
helps to
boost the local economy.
Increasing parental employment lack of knowledge about
available in-work
benefits can prevent parents from both moving into and sustaining
work. Efforts
to increase employment will therefore be most effective when
combined with
action to increase take up of in-work benefits and tax credits.
Integrate take up into existing partnership plans, strategies and needs
assessments.
For example:

 Making the link between ill health and poverty in the Joint Strategic
Needs
Assessment.
Link take up to progress against the Children and Young Peoples
Plan outcome
of achieve economic wellbeing.
Encourage both universal and targeted services to signpost parents to
information
and integrate benefits checks into existing processes. For example
certain criteria
could prompt a GP to refer a patient for a benefits check such as if they
had been
unable to work due to a long period of sickness or were suffering from
stress.
Co-locate experienced benefits advisers within local services such as
housing offices
(including where housing is managed by another organisation on
behalf of the local
authority) and childrens centres on a part-time or full-time basis.Key

Actions to Enable This Approach

In order to embed take up work within an integrated and personalised
package of
support, local authorities and partners will need to:
Have a joined-up approach to take up at a strategic level that can
drive forward jointcommissioning
for take up activity. To achieve this it may be necessary to build a local
business case that can be used to gain the necessary engagement of
all services and
partners needed to provide a holistic package of support. Maximising
parent income
can make a contribution to a number of high-level strategic objectives
including:
Tackling child poverty by focusing on increasing take up of
benefits and tax
credits by parents, children can be both lifted out of poverty, and
prevented from
falling into poverty.
Improving health and wellbeing it is well established that
children from
disadvantaged groups are more likely to have poorer health outcomes
than those
from more affluent groups. By working to maximise parent income, a
contribution
can be made to tackling health inequalities.
Promoting inclusive communities action to increase take up
will help to

increase contact with, and support given to, families that are hard to
reach and
vulnerable to social exclusion.
Bringing additional income into the local economy money
that is awarded
to families with children is likely to be spent in the local area, which
helps to
boost the local economy.
Increasing parental employment lack of knowledge about
available in-work
benefits can prevent parents from both moving into and sustaining
work. Efforts
to increase employment will therefore be most effective when
combined with
action to increase take up of in-work benefits and tax credits.
Integrate take up into existing partnership plans, strategies and needs
assessments.
For example:
Making the link between ill health and poverty in the Joint Strategic
Needs
Assessment.
Link take up to progress against the Children and Young Peoples
Plan outcome
of achieve economic wellbeing.
Encourage both universal and targeted services to signpost parents to
information
and integrate benefits checks into existing processes. For example
certain criteria
could prompt a GP to refer a patient for a benefits check such as if they
had been
unable to work due to a long period of sickness or were suffering from
stress.
Co-locate experienced benefits advisers within local services such as
housing offices
(including where housing is managed by another organisation on
behalf of the local
authority) and childrens centres on a part-time or full-time basis