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One week until Blog Action Day, the day in the year where bloggers are encouraged to post about a specific subject.  This year the theme is poverty.

The Blog Action Day site helpfully gives some examples of what various types of blog might post about.  Strangely enough it doesn’t mention Civic Leader blogs so here is some advice for blogging councillors about what to write on Blog Action Day – Poverty.

1. Highlight the work that has been done /needs to be done to alleviate poverty in your area.  Even the richest boroughs of London such as Kensington and Chelsea have very deprived areas.  The ranking of neighbourhoods on the DCLG Deprivation indices varies from the 1390th most deprived neighbourhood to the 32440th (out of 32,482).  I’m told the difference in life expectancy between parts of K&C vary by ten years.
2. Tell a story of local residents who have escaped poverty.  The Big Issue introduce some of their vendors. Write about someone local to you.
3. Write about and link to a charity you support that helps people in poverty either in the UK or abroad
4. Write about work you do as a school governor or member of council to help school help children from poor households
5. Write about your experience working with people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

You’ll have your ideas so please register at the Blog Action Day site and use your blog to help highlight what can be done about poverty.

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