CYP Now - Child Poverty: The poorest children are not benefiting from poverty drive

Government efforts to reduce child poverty are having no effect on the very poorest children, new research commissioned by Save the Children suggests.

The findings are likely to disappoint the Government, which has pledgedto abolish child poverty in a generation.

The study, carried out by Monica Magadi at the Centre for Research inSocial Policy at Loughborough University, is due to be published laterthis month.

It updates a report from Save the Children called Britain's PoorestChildren, published in 2003. The new study found that while there hasbeen a decline in the proportion of children in poverty from 26 per centin 1997 to 14 per cent in 2002, there is no evidence of a decline in theproportion of children in severe poverty.

The research defines children in severe poverty as those in householdsbelow 27 per cent of median income, while non-severe poverty is below 60per cent of median income.

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