For many in our sector, the answer will have something to do with eradicating child poverty. Poverty blights both children's lives and their life chances, putting them at increased risk of low income and benefit dependency as adults, and perpetuating a cycle of inequality.
From a political perspective, reducing inequality is not just a matter of altruism. An unequal society is likely to be a divided society, with all the dangers that entails.
Arguably, though, while we may have made inroads into child poverty we are growing no closer to tackling the problem of persistent and systematic inequalities. Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that the gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening.
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