Effective use of data can identify struggling households and offer proactive, tailored support to help boost their incomes before they hit crisis point. This can accelerate employment, prevent homelessness, improve health and alter the trajectory of low-income families.
Barking & Dagenham has aligned 17 key service areas into a single Community Solutions service to focus on prevention.
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