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Cutting child poverty target missed
Nursery World,
7 April 2005
The Government is likely to miss its target of cutting child poverty by a quarter by the end of this year, despite relative child poverty falling by 100,000 last year. New statistics from the Department for Work and Pensions show that 2.6 million children lived in poor homes in 2003-04, down from 3.1 million in 1996-97. The Child Poverty Action Group called for 'greater financial resources' to eradicate child poverty by 2020.
The Government is likely to miss its target of cutting child poverty by a quarter by the end of this year, despite relative child poverty falling by 100,000...
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