Resolve Poverty FOI request
Case reference FOI2025/01038
Received 27 November 2025
Published 22 December 2025
Request
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information from South Derbyshire.
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 focusing 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.
1. 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.
1. Has your council voluntarily adopted the socio-economic duty? Please answer yes or no, and provide more detail if necessary. For example, you may answer "no, but we recognise socio-economic disadvantage as an additional factor in Equality Impact Assessments". [LB1]
Response
South Derbyshire District Council does not have a written anti-poverty strategy and there are no plans to develop one in the next 12months. Derbyshire County Council has led on this work in the past and have developed supporting strategies. South Derbyshire District Council has not voluntarily adopted the socio-economic duty. Socio-economic disadvantage it is not a protected characteristic so not a current requirement of our EIA.
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