• Membership changes

• Introduction

• The Committee's inquiry
  • Evidence, visits and engagement

• Cross-cutting nature of action on child poverty and governance challenges
  • Leadership on cross-cutting issues and policy areas
  • Mainstreaming tackling child poverty through parental employment
  • Monitoring shared priorities delivered through local partnerships
  • Conclusion

• Infrastructure
  • Adequate and affordable services for low-income parents
    • Provision of childcare
    • Conclusion
    • Education and training provision
    • Conclusion
    • Public transport provision
    • Conclusion
    • Affordability of transport
    • Conclusion
  • Need for diverse service provision to meet specific needs
    • Provision of culturally sensitive childcare
    • Childcare for children with additional support needs
    • Provision of childcare in remote and rural areas
    • Public transport outside urban centres, travel corridors and in remote areas
    • Conclusion

• Employability programmes and services
  • Conclusion

• Financial support
  • Student parents
    • Financial pressures of summer breaks
    • Part-time grant thresholds
    • Conclusion
    • Improving financial support and guidance from education institutions
  • Social security rules
    • Conclusion

• National policy priorities
  • Working towards a Fair Work Nation
    • In-work poverty
    • Conclusion
    • Fair pay for childcare workers
    • Conclusion
  • Reform of the post-school education sector
  • Work-based pathways and just transition opportunities

• Inter-sector collaboration to progress national priorities
  • Returning to higher education
    • Conclusion
  • Involving employers in employability programmes

• Fair work and the business sector
  • Family friendly and flexible working
    • Supporting women returners
    • Conclusion
  • Using procurement rules to influence employment practices
    • Procurement process in the health and social care sector
    • Conclusion

• Funding to deliver parental employment
  • Prioritisation
    • Early learning and childcare
    • Transport for low-income families
    • Parental transition into employment
    • Increasing funding for Individual Training Accounts to meet demand
  • Impact of budget cuts and financial constraints
    • Education
    • Employability
    • Transport
  • Consistency and availability of funding
    • Providing educational courses
    • Delivering employability programmes
    • Conclusion
  • Delivering at pace and scale
    • Childcare

• Overall conclusion

• Annexe A- Parental Employment in Best Start Bright Futures

• Annexe B- Minutes of meetings

• Annexe C- Written evidence

• Annexe D- Visits and focus group

• Annexe E - Education policies and strategies relevant to child poverty