Speaking at the National Children and Adult Services conference in Manchester, in response to concerns from the audience that reductions in benefit levels will make levels of poverty worse, Teather said the driving force behind the move was to drive down rents.
"It can’t be right that so much money goes into the pockets of private landlords," she said. "Where we are and where we want to get to isn’t an easy road."
She said the pupil premium and early intervention grant will form the crux of the coalition’s attempts to tackle child poverty.
Teather said the previous Labour government’s approach to tackling the issue was wrong, saying that unless the root causes of poverty are tackled, poverty will be passed on from generation to generation.
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