With the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 report concluding progress on poverty has ground to a halt, the government must urgently revitalise its child poverty strategy.
The culture of inequality in Britain has a high cost to individual lives and the whole nation. We cannot afford not to address the educational failure, health costs and social division that poverty brings to our communities.
Although the government's strategy is keeping a million children out of poverty, there are still 3.8 million children below the poverty line.
Progress has been made, but without major new policies and new investment to build on this success, progress will not continue. The first priority must be investment in family incomes to meet the 2010 target of halving child poverty. But to meet the 2020 target of ending child poverty more radical policies are needed on fair taxation, fair pay, welfare security and affordable housing.
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