Child poverty target will be missed, says government commission

Joe Lepper
Monday, October 20, 2014

Efforts to end child poverty by 2020 are in tatters, according to a damning report by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission.

This decade is set to be the first since records began that absolute poverty has not fallen. Image: Arlen Connelly
This decade is set to be the first since records began that absolute poverty has not fallen. Image: Arlen Connelly

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