Helping children living in severe poverty must be the priority ofGovernment efforts to reduce poverty. This is the main conclusion ofBritain's Poorest Children Revisited, a study commissioned by Save theChildren UK examining the effectiveness of government policies to getchildren out of poverty.
Researchers from Loughborough University's centre for research in socialpolicy analysed government data to look for trends in the level andnature of child poverty.
The good news is that the researchers did find a significant reductionin the number of children in households with incomes below 60 per centof the median income - the definition of poverty. In 1994, 31 per centof children lived in poverty. By 1997, this had fallen to 29 per cent,and by 2002 it had fallen sharply to 19 per cent.
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