CYP Now - Child Poverty: Lack of co-ordination may undermine poverty goals

The Government's failure to ensure all departments are "proofed" against child poverty could make it miss its targets to reduce poverty, a charity has claimed.

End Child Poverty gave the warning alongside the publication of its 10-point charter advising the Government on how to lift a million children out of poverty.

Jonathan Stearn, the charity's director, said the Government had gone some way towards meeting the advice of the charter, supported by more than 40 organisations including Oxfam, Save the Children and the Royal College of Nursing.

It had increased child benefit and the minimum wage, he said, but these needed to be raised further. However, he said the Government risked failing to meet its pledge to halve child poverty by 2010 if it did not persuade departments to adopt bespoke policies targeted at child poverty.

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