End Child Poverty: In Conversation with Professor Sharon Bessell

Spend an evening with Professor Sharon Bessell to discuss her groundbreaking work amplifying the voices of children living in poverty. Through her research, Professor Bessell is developing essential indicators to measure child poverty, helping us prevent more children from facing the scarring effects of poverty.

Date: November 22, 2024

Time: 6pm – 8pm

Location: Lawson’s Flat, 4 Sherwood Ct, Perth

A welcome drink and canapes will be provided donated by our campaign partner

The Tony Fini Foundation.

The End Child Poverty campaign has brought together 150 organisations across Australia with one clear goal: to legislate an end to child poverty. As one of the 70 WA Based partners, we invite you to a special event to learn about what children are telling us about poverty.

Event Highlights:

• Speakers: Prof. Sharon Bessell, sharing insights and stories from the More for Children research.
• Campaign Milestones and Vision: Learn about our campaign’s impact so far, our strategy for 2025, and how we’ll make change leading up to both state and national elections.
• Teddy Bear Installation: Witness a powerful visual representation, with 100 teddies symbolising 100 children, of which 17 will be in a different colour to highlight the 17% of children in poverty.

MOR for Children: A Framework for Change

The MOR Framework helps us to understand poverty from a child standpoint. It enables us to assess progress towards ending child poverty by understanding deeply the way poverty shapes children’s lives. It also uncovers the things that matter most to children, providing a basis for action that is child centred. Importantly, the MOR Framework provides a means of addressing the underlying causes of poverty.

The MOR Framework recognises that a lack of income is at the heart of poverty, but poverty is experienced as more than insufficient income. Poverty shapes every aspect of children’s lives – creating insecurity, limiting what they can do and how they participate in their communities, shaping how they are able to learn, and often putting stress on relationships that children value deeply.

Click the image to read the MOR for Children research