On the eve of the strategy's publication on 5 April, campaigners argued that the Child Poverty Act 2010 had already been breached twice after the government failed to set up a child poverty commission that should have been consulted on the new strategy and had also missed the publication deadline of 25 March.
But scrutiny of the long-awaited strategy, which was published earlier this month, has led charities and child poverty campaigners to conclude that it fails to meet the requirements of at least two further aspects of the act.
The legislation stipulates that any child poverty strategy must set out what progress the minister responsible believes must be made over the lifetime of the strategy for the four separate child poverty targets to be met by 2020.
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