"Children may not have votes or the loudest voices - or at least their voices are not often heard - but our obligation is, if anything, greater because of this."
So said Chancellor Gordon Brown at a keynote speech to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation days before he delivered his spending review last week. Back in 1999, Tony Blair pledged the Government to a goal of ending child poverty completely by 2020. It was a challenging target, and there were two difficult milestones on the way.
By 2005, the Government wants child poverty cut by a quarter from its level in 1998, and last week the Treasury said this target would be met.
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