John Hutton, the work and pensions secretary, announced this change instrategy following publication of the Government's annual poverty andsocial exclusion audit Opportunity for All last week.
But organisations and charities representing children urged theGovernment to do more to achieve its target to halve child poverty by2010 and reach those families in most need.
Colette Marshall, UK director of Save the Children, said: "We know thatmany of these children are in families where work simply isn't an option- either due to disability, lack of access to work in the area, orbecause parents are caring for young children."
The report, which said that 700,000 fewer children are living in povertycompared to 1997, coincided with the start of End Child Poverty Month,which is calling on chancellor Gordon Brown to spend at least 4bnon tackling child poverty.
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