Chair Carey Oppenheim told Children Now that she will order research onthe "pressures and challenges" likely to push up child poverty inLondon, to help expose the scale of the commission's task.
There is a range of pilot projects in London addressing unemployment andpoverty for particular groups; help with childcare costs is one example."We will look at where they are, why they were set up and how effectivethey are," said Oppenheim.
"The commission will initially focus on understanding the nature of theproblems families in poverty face," she added. This will involve lookingat both national and local polices on a wide range of issues, includinglabour and housing costs.
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