Under the Child Poverty Act 2010, all top-tier councils are required to have a strategy on tackling child poverty as well as a needs assessment for their local area. Councils were given a deadline of March 2011 to complete these, but when the coalition came into power the deadline was removed as part of its commitment towards localism.
4Children visited the websites of all 152 local authorities in England to see if they had published their needs assessments and strategies, and found only 74. Of those that had not published a strategy, 4Children contacted a selection of 40 councils and found that in the majority of cases those that had not published their strategies did not have one.
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