Closing the gap: child poverty

How likely is the Government to hit its target for ending child poverty? asks Wendy Wallace As the conspicuous consumption surrounding the birth of the new millennium dies away, the social landscape lies unaltered around us. Just under a year ago, Tony Blair pledged to set in motion measures to end child poverty within the next two decades. But new research published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds that child poverty has not yet decreased. Worst-off are 2.2 million children living in households where...