The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)’s latest progress report on efforts to end child poverty by 2020, states that the previous government’s attempts to reduce child poverty made a “significant and long-lasting difference” to families, with around 900,000 children lifted out of poverty between 1999 and 2009/10 through initiatives including tax credits.
But Alison Garnham, CPAG chief executive, said measures by the current government, such as public sector funding cuts and benefit reform, threaten to reverse that trend.
“The warnings for the current government are crystal clear," she said. "Under current policies they risk wiping out all these hard-won gains.
"Unless their strategy improves, their legacy threatens to be the worst child poverty record of any government for a generation.”
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