FOI request (FOIR-631808307)

Anti-poverty strategy

Requested Thu 18 July 2024
Responded Thu 08 August 2024

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from Hastings Borough Council:

1. Does your council have a written anti-poverty strategy (this may also be referred to as a 'poverty strategy')? This may be an all-age strategy, or one focussing on a specific group of the population, such as a child poverty strategy. If so, please provide a link to the strategy if it is available publicly, or a copy via email.

2. If your council does not have an anti-poverty strategy in place, does it plan to develop one within the next 12 months? If so, please provide a link to any public facing document detailing this commitment.

3. Has your council voluntarily adopted the socio-economic duty?

Response

1. Information not held. Hastings Borough Council (HBC) does not currently have an anti-poverty strategy.

2. HBC does not have an explicit commitment at this point to creating a strategy within the next 12 months. However, at our Overview and Scrutiny Committee 18 July 2024, see report https://hastings.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s53712/Work%20Programme%202024%202025.pdf, Councillors committed to the following 'Anti-Poverty Strategy' points 14 to 18 in the above report.

3. HBC has not formally adopted the socio-economic duty.