Acknowledgement of the progress made was buried well down in mostarticles, with the general tone being set by words such as"disappointing", "failure" and "disgraceful". Even the Tories felt ableto climb on the bandwagon without so much as a blush over the fact thatat the last election they explicitly rejected Labour's child povertytargets.
Ministers' failure to present progress on child poverty as the successstory it is, is an indication of how difficult it is going to be to meetthe further goals of halving child poverty by 2010 compared to 1999, anderadicating it by 2020. Commentators pointed out last week that it isgoing to take a lot more money, effectively a much greaterredistribution of wealth, than had previously been thought sufficient.Meeting the 2010 and 2020 targets will take more than simply helpingpeople into work.
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