We can achieve much more by working together ——
Sharing insights, skills and resources to respond to a challenge that is too big for any single organisation to address on its own.
The Raise Camden Taskforce brings together experts, partners, and Camden residents with lived experience to collaborate, innovate and find solutions to child poverty and unfairness in children’s health.
The taskforce is co-chaired by Councillor Sagal Abdi-Wali, the Leader of Camden Council, and Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity and Professor of Epidemiology at University College London.
The Raise Camden Taskforce sets the direction for the Raise Camden programme. The taskforce undertakes quarterly deep dives reviews of the most challenging issues identified in the IHE report. It has set the following high-level ambitions:
- Promote home and community environments which allow children to grow well, thrive and have a positive future. Camden will be a family-friendly borough that welcomes families, and is a place that all families are happy to call home.
- Support families at risk of statutory homelessness, living in or who have recently moved from temporary accommodation, to be set up for future long term success and stability.
- Ensure the social and material barriers of poverty do not adversely affect children’s experience of school, and of families’ ability to engage with education.
- Whole Family Mental Health [TBD July 2026]
