The child poverty strategy, A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of Disadvantage and Transforming Families’ Lives, sets out the government’s plan for meeting poverty targets by 2020.
The report outlines hopes that the introduction of a universal credit will lift people who get a job out of poverty.
"Around 55 per cent of children who are currently in poverty are living in working families," Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith states in the foreword. "By moving all working age benefit claimants onto the universal credit from 2013 to 2017 we expect to move around 600,000 adults and 350,000 children out of poverty."
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