The government will miss its target of ending child poverty by 2020 by a “considerable margin”, according to a report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. State of the Nation 2013: social mobility and child poverty in Great Britain has found a 275,000 increase in the numbers of poor children in poverty since 2010, despite the number of children living in workless households falling by 15 per cent.
Doncaster Council is offering cash incentives to social work team managers who work in its troubled children’s services department. The Star reports they are being offered bonuses of up to £6,000 over a period of two years. The council says that attracting a permanent workforce will be beneficial to the children and young people who use the service.
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