Successive governments have promised to eradicate child poverty by 2020, but the Institute for Fiscal Studies says that by then there will be one million more children living in poverty than there are now (see graph).
The latest incarnation of the government's child poverty strategy promises to tackle poverty at its source, focusing on work, living standards and education. The document highlights the root causes of child poverty, but campaigners are less impressed by measures to combat these, with the lack of detail on measures of impact a particular concern.
"Until the government puts some numbers in the report in terms of how it will be accountable year on year, this is not a strategy but a set of broad aspirations," says Fiona Weir, chief executive of single parents' charity Gingerbread.
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