The London living wage is voluntary and currently stands at £7.45 an hour, £1.95 an hour more than then national minimum wage. It was brought in to take into account the high cost of living in the capital and unsociable working hours.
This latest move is part of a package of measures to cut the child poverty rate in the capital hammered out at a summit, chaired by Kate Green of the London Child Poverty Commission and including children's minister Beverley Hughes and London mayor Boris Johnson.
Measures have been packaged together under the banner the London Child Poverty Pledge and include setting a joint target to raise the number of parents in employment by three per cent by 2013.
Those present also pledged to bring in more initiatives to combat child poverty and ensure services for poor families are a priority.
Johnson said: "Child poverty is a curse. It blights the lives of the most innocent and vulnerable in society, and it's a terrible indictment of modern Britain that it still exists."
He added that his deputy mayor Richard Barnes will take the lead on child poverty initiatives in London.
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