As a founding member of the Campaign to End Child Poverty, NCB welcomes this step to ensure a sustained effort towards tackling child poverty. This will not only help us secure better outcomes for the 2.9 million children living in poverty but, bearing in mind the strong correlation between poverty and other costly social issues, such as crime, low educational attainment and poor health, will benefit society more generally.
However, there are a number of ways in which the bill can be strengthened, and NCB and our End Child Poverty partners will be working to achieve this as the legislation progresses.
Firstly, we want to see a truly ambitious target. The target of less than 10 per cent of children living in poverty proposed in the bill is not satisfactory. End Child Poverty will be calling for a target of less than 5 per cent which would reflect what has been achieved in Europe.
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