The new child poverty unit, based in the Cabinet Office, will bring together external child poverty expert and cross-government officials to create an “ambitious strategy” to tackle rising child poverty.
The unit will report into a new taskforce led by Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson and Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall.
“The new unit will explore how we can use all the available levers we have across government to create an ambitious strategy,” Starmer said, adding that secretaries of state from across government will meet to begin work on the strategy in the coming weeks.
The first steps taken by the taskforce will be to consider how levers related to household income as well as employment, housing, children’s health, childcare and education “can be used to improve children’s experiences and chances at life”.
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