Lisa Harker, the former child poverty tsar, argued that althoughwelfare-to-work programmes have helped parents get jobs, many were stillpoor.
"The Government, with its current policies, will miss the target ofhalving child poverty by 2010," she told a Daycare Trust conference lastweek. "Half of Britain's children living in poverty are from familieswhere someone has a job.
"The face of poverty is someone working in catering or a care home,doing the best they can for their family but struggling to make endsmeet. The Government must turn its attention to these people."
Earlier at the conference, Ed Balls, the economic secretary at theTreasury, had insisted that the Government would meet its target onchild poverty.
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