At a Labour conference event organised by One Parent Families, JohnHutton said supporting mentally ill parents would help them back intowork and so reduce child poverty.
"Mental health is big gap in our welfare system. If we close this gap wecan get many more people out of poverty," said Hutton. He added that healso wanted local government to play a bigger role in tackling childpoverty.
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