Poverty Alleviation and Prevention in Leeds: A Reflective Analysis

This report examines poverty alleviation and prevention efforts in Leeds, England, utilizing the Gibbs Reflective Model to analyze the multifaceted challenges faced by the city's population. It details the impact of poverty on various aspects of life, including access to basic necessities, education, and involvement in crime, particularly affecting children and families. The report incorporates a healthcare worker's perspective, reflecting on personal experiences, feelings of frustration, and the need for improved resources and support systems. It evaluates the healthcare worker's skills, identifying strengths in communication and empathy while acknowledging areas for improvement, such as leadership and management skills. The analysis highlights the urgent needs of the population and the importance of effective communication and coordination among service providers. The conclusion emphasizes the adverse effects of poverty and the necessity for a strategic action plan to enhance service delivery, incorporating management and leadership skills. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the situation, offering insights into the complexities of poverty alleviation and the importance of a reflective approach in addressing social and economic challenges.

Poverty alleviation prevention
in Leeds

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Gibbs Reflective model proposed by Graham Gibbs, is a framework which concentrates
on repeated occurrence. This framework accounts the situations and facilitate the people to
develop sense, understand the situation and put reflections for betterment in future. It includes
Six stages and each stages has specific engagement and reflection on experiences. The involved
stages are Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusion and Action plan (Kovacs and
Corrie, 2022). This project is all about the Poverty alleviation prevention in Leeds, A city in
England situated at the south bank of the River Aire. This project utilizes the Gibbs Reflective
Framework to evaluate and reflect the Leeds situations.
MAIN BODY
Poverty is about not having enough money to attains the basic necessities which includes
food, shelter and clothing (Fahle and et.al., 2020). Almost 155,000 people in Leeds are living in
poverty. 3 out of 5 children are living in poverty and adversely affecting the life of the children
especially. This poverty has hold back the children growth and development, breaks the pathway
for their education and ultimately stop them to work (Fraser, 2019). People living in poverty
have engage themselves in the Crime. A reflection is discussed below in context to poverty
alleviation in Leeds:
Description
I was in Leeds with some of my co-workers for some project work and as a healthcare
worker, I have analysed that Leeds is suffering from poverty from last few year which has
impacted the social- economical status of the people living there. The child's and the adults are
highly impacted due to poverty. Families with the low income, poverty has lead to use the food
bank and skipping of the foods by the parents for their children. Parents are not able to afford the
warmer clothes for their child or for themselves. This all are affecting the growth and
development of the child as the parents are not bale to access the necessities. Due to low income
the education need is also not fulfilled which again the hindering the process of getting job. The
young people are assailable to moving with additional burden ad gap in education into their
adulthoods. The adults are adopted the path of crime to fulfil their needs and desires. Due to
poverty, The people in Leeds have also facing the discrimination, exclusion and lack of
opportunities. While this project, A commitment was made by me and my co- workers to

challenge the child poverty and reduces the several barriers that children and adults are facing.
This is done by ensuring several practices and some work as a service support to the families
facing Poverty.
Feelings
As a healthcare worker, I have been in frustration along with the fear, anxiety and worry.
The frustration was due to unavailability of the suitable resources or access to the facility which
may help the families to live the life in a good manner. A continuous worry regarding the
children who are suffering unnecessary and not able to get the basic amenities for their proper
growth and development . The deficiencies due to unavailability of proper nutrients making the
population of Leeds vulnerable to the diseases as the immune system are able to defend the
diseases. The engagement of the adults in the crime has develop a sense of worry as well as fear
in the co-living population and the care provider. The head of families are so much stresses and
may get into depression because they are not able to arrange the necessities. As a healthcare
worker, the contemporary situations has disappointed me to a great extent. Several question from
the people and children had increase the anxiety level and fear about their worsening situations
due to improper management resources which could facilitate their living. The poverty has
changed the view point and attention of the Leeds population.
Evaluation
As a healthcare worker I have evaluated that the presence of my communication skills,
empathy and problem solving skill has great support throughout the service. Communication
skills have help me to understand the basic needs and problem which the populations are facing,
by actively listening to them the suitable solution of the problem was proposed which the
suffering population has adopted immediately and co-operated very well (Lee, Thomas,
Zachariah and Cooper, 2019). The skills of empathy helps me in empathizing the population and
the difficulties that they are facing. Several kinds of problems of child's and women are easily
sorted due to presence of problem solving skills. This builds a healthy and trust worthy
relationship between the people and healthcare worker present there which are me and my co
worker.(Kara and Selcuk, 2021). The people are assured and became comfortable in sharing their
issues or problem. However some of the issue are still there which needs to be solved. I have
evaluated that I do not have skills like leadership skills, management skills and conflict
management skills and absence of flexibility. Due to absence of leadership skills , I was not able

to guide the directions, motivates others which leads to suffering of culture and morale. As the
healthcare worker I was not able to manage the work, which unable to co ordinate and
understand to various fields and can not improve the patient care and risk their safety. I was
taking time to settle in the contemporary situations due to absence of flexibility. I was not able to
quickly adapt the shift needs and patient needs.
Analysis
While working I have been analysed that the needs of the people are very urgent which
needs to be sorted as soon as possible. The problem of the population were sorted out one by one
and I and my fellowmates were trying to fulfil the basic and urgent necessities of the people. The
effective communication skill of the workers have ease the understanding between the worker
and the people. They were actively listening to patient and trying to solve the problem verbally
or non- verbally both. With the help of effective communication skills they were coordinating
the provided care and managing the chronic diseases and thus working for improving the overall
quality of care. The worker were trying to relax and calm the people thus reducing the stress and
anxiety. The people were assured and became comfortable in sharing their issues or problem.
That reflects the empathy and compassion of the worker which are associated with the better
support of the medication and accelerating the patient satisfaction. However some of the issue
are still needs to be focused. There was lack of directions in provided service and also the
motivation which leads to suffering of culture and peoples health. The workers are not able to
manage the services properly and coordinate effectively thus they were not able to improve the
provided service and were risking the patients health. The workers were not enough flexible to
adapt the necessities of that time.
Conclusion
while this project I can conclude that, the poverty has adversely impacted the Leeds
population especially the child's and the adults. Due to low income the education need is also not
fulfilled which again the hindering the process of getting job. The people are very prone to
infections and chronic illness due unavailability of resources. The service provider were effetely
communicating with the peoples and completing their requirements and also calming and helping
them to overcome their stress and anxiety. However some of the skills like leadership skills,
management skills needs to be implemented to enhance the service and for this proper action
plan with smart goal is needed.

Action Plan
When I face the similar situation in the future, few action needs to implemented priorly
by me. For effectively management of the medication in the population according to their needs
and reducing the chances of misunderstanding proper Management skills and leadership skills
(McIntyre, Alavinia and Matlow, 2021) needs to implemented by me. In order to resolve the
conflicts and maintain the respect and enthusiasm, management skills should be learned. For
settling in whatever the situation will be and work effectively and enhance the productivity I
have to enhance my flexibility skill in order to increases the productivity (Yildirim, Kantek and
Yilmaz, 2022).
CONCLUSION
From the above Reflection, it can be concluded that the Leeds population are very badly
affected by the Poverty. This poverty has hold back the children growth and development, breaks
the pathway for their education and ultimately stop them to work. Families with the low income,
poverty has lead to use the food bank and skipping of the foods by the parents for their children.
The service provider has decided to challenge the child poverty and reduces the several barriers
that children and adults are facing. The service provider are effectively working which was eased
by their effective communication skills and the skill of empathy and compassion. By the help of
this skills they understand the basic needs and problem which the populations are facing. For
future working some skills important are leadership skills, management skills, and flexibility
while providing services.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Fraser, D., 2019. The community today and its recent history. In Leeds and its Jewish
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Kara, B. and Selcuk, B., 2021. The Role of Socioeconomic Adversity and Armed Conflict in
Executive Function, Theory of Mind and Empathy in Children. Child Psychiatry &
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Kovacs, L. and Corrie, S., 2022. Building reflective capability to enhance coaching practice.
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Lee, S.W.H., Thomas, D., Zachariah, S. and Cooper, J.C., 2019. Communication skills and
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McIntyre, M., Alavinia, S.M. and Matlow, A., 2021. Implementation of a pilot leadership
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