Public Health Wales recently published a report for the Building a Healthier Wales Coordination Group, called Better Join Up, Better Outcomes for Child Poverty. This webinar shared the key findings and recommendations from the report, and introduced a practical self-assessment tool that anyone can use to strengthen collaboration on any topic.

Reducing child poverty – and it’s impact on health and wellbeing – requires long-term, joined up working across many sectors in Wales.  However, we know that effective collaboration can be challenging in practice. This work aimed to understand what helps collaboration happen, and what support is needed at local, regional and national levels.

In 2025, we reviewed existing evidence to identify the organisational and system features that support good partnership working. We then explored whether these features are present in current child poverty partnerships across Wales, through a survey and interviews with partners from a range of sectors.

This webinar shared examples of strong collaborative practice already happening across Wales, as well as the actions – particularly at a national level – that could help strengthen and sustain local and regional partnership working in the future.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the key features of effective intersectoral collaboration
• Identify strengths and areas for improvement in your own collaborative partnerships using the self-assessment tool
• Apply practical actions and recommendations to strengthen collaborations