How can people be helped to progress out of low-paid employment into better-paid jobs (considering the roles of governments, Employers and Employees)?

1.To what extent do families (including extended families) provide the first line of defence against individual poverty in Ontario, and what are the limits
and variations of this support?

2. How can childcare be provided so that is both affordable for parents and of high quality, with a proven positive long-term impact on child outcomes?

3. If services for families in poverty were developed from scratch, so that their specific focus was on eliminating poverty, how would they be different and what can be learned from other countries/provinces?

4. What are some strategies that can be implemented to help improve the quality of underperforming schools in deprived areas? Does this impact the family environment? Explain your thinking!

5.What are the most effective methods of increasing involvement and support for the education of children amongst their parents of guardians?

6. What changes can help reduce the negative impact of social stigmas on growing up in an impoverished family environment?

7. Why is there a weaker link between family disadvantage and child outcomes for some children, families and communities (for example, among some minority ethnic groups)? What can be done to make a change in this statistic? What can you do from a community level to help make a positive impact?

8. What are the key mechanisms through which poverty is translated into poorer life opportunities for families living in Canada?

9. How can people be helped to progress out of low-paid employment into better-paid jobs (considering the roles of governments, Employers and Employees)?

10. What are the casual connections and intersections between poverty and wider social problems (such as homelessness, substance misuse, mental and physical ill health)? Do these intersections have any correlation to the family environment?