The strategy looks to address poverty through placing a greater emphasis on social mobility and opportunity to help combat cycles of educational underachievement, worklessness and family breakdown.
The proposals build on Graham Allen’s work on early intervention and Frank Field’s report on poverty, and include a review of plans to create a child poverty commission, with a view to broadening its remit to include life chances.
Speaking at the launch of the consultation today (21 December), children’s minister Sarah Teather described the fact that 2.8 million children live in poverty in the UK as "a scandal".
"The best way to eradicate child poverty is to address the causes of poverty, rather than only treat the symptoms," she said.
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