The Chancellor is also no doubt aware that the progress towards the Government's goal of halving child poverty by 2010 has been made with those easiest to lift out of poverty. Reaching the next milestones will be very much harder. One way of tackling this is to make child poverty a concern not just of the Government departments and agencies directly involved with children and families, but of all departments and agencies.
The Treasury has been carrying out research and consultation on how this could be achieved, to make transport policy, for example, take account of the impact on children and families living in or near poverty. Or transport, or housing.
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