Tackle poverty by offering financial health checks to improve access to services/benefits to help with the cost of living.

Support school attendance by reducing the financial barriers in the cost of the school day. 

Shift the balance of care for those children who need to be looked after away from home, from residential care to family-based care.

Ensure children will meet their individual developmental and attainment targets and school leavers will transition into positive, sustained destinations.

Support school aged care experienced children to fully engage in education.

Develop family learning programmes with all school areas that target families who would most benefit from family learning.

Provide connectivity and support within library spaces to those who would otherwise be digitally excluded.

Develop our Library Service to create attractive opportunities to further reduce inequalities and promote opportunities.

Work with community partners to reduce unemployment and inactivity rates and increase the skills of the workforce within the Falkirk area.

Embed equalities at the heart of strategic planning and decision making across the Council. 

Increase financial gain (additional income to households) from benefits support provided by Council Debt and Welfare Benefits Services to households including those with children.

Improve percentage of children being looked after in the community where possible.

Increase the number of new foster care placements.

Offer all Kinship Carers a benefit maximisation assessment.

Improve attendance rates in our High Schools.

Increase attainment for all – including those living in the most deprived areas.

Increase P1/4/7 Literacy and Numeracy in our Primary Schools.

Increase the percentage of children (including Looked After Children) entering positive destinations.

Our educational provisions will be rated as good or better.

Improve mental health & wellbeing outcomes through community learning activity for people of all ages.

Increase the number of young people completing & receiving national awards or wider achievement awards via CLD.

Increase the number of public space Wi-Fi Locations.

Increase the number of unique clients accessing pc, internet and WiFi sessions in libraries (connectivity).

Increase the number of individuals attending IT support sessions in libraries.

Increase number of attendees at programmed events and activities offered by libraries.

Improve the percentage of unemployed people assisted into work from Council operated/funded employability programmes.

Monitor and report against the number of people unemployed and claiming benefits in the area.

Monitor and report against the proportion of people earning less than the living wage in the area.

Focus on equalities by ensuring all decision-making reports to the Council, Executive and Education, Children and Young People Executive are supported by an Equalities & Poverty Impact Assessment (EPIA).

Ensure all Elected Members and Senior Officers complete Equality and Poverty Impact Assessment (EPIA) training.

Increase the percentage of staff who have completed Basic Equalities Training in Falkirk Council.