Letters: Missed opportunity on poverty

15 June 2004

In rejecting the Work and Pensions Select Committee's call for a joined-up national strategy to fight child poverty, the Government has missed the opportunity to make real progress in meeting its target of halving child poverty by 2010. As the committee pointed out in its report, the Government's programme will not, by itself, deliver the reductions necessary to reach this goal merely by doing more of the same.

It is unfortunate that the Government has adopted a bunker mentality - there can be no room for complacency if the Prime Minister is to meet his ambitious pledge to eradicate child poverty within a generation.

Jonathan Stearn, director, End Child Poverty.

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