As parliament returns, we have another contribution to the ongoing debate about inequality and poverty, and how they affect our children's lives and life chances. The National Children's Bureau (NCB), reflecting on the time since it published Born to Fail? in 1969, recently released Greater Expectations. It adds to the wealth of material we already have on the challenges that beset us as we struggle to tackle child poverty in the UK's sophisticated, Western economy. Amid all the "'tis so" and "'tisn't at all" to-ing and fro-ing between commentators, policymakers and practitioners that greeted its publication, there are some concrete facts we should all remember.
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