Fun in Action is a Brighton-based charity that provides befrienders to children of lone parents. Chris said: "Having a befriender has helped me and my mum. I am getting on better at school and my mum has given up smoking." Polly Toynbee, chair of End Child Poverty, said the Government's target of halving child poverty by 2010 would not be met because of an increasing divide between rich and poor.
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