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No progress on child poverty
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
5 December 2007
The Government's lack of progress in eradicating child poverty was highlighted in two reports published on Monday, with one study showing a year-on-year increase of 200,000 children living in poverty between 2005 and 2006.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said the rise in children living in poverty was the most serious setback to the Government's child poverty campaign. It found that no progress had been made in three years and said the Government's child poverty strategy was in urgent need of a major re-think. Peter Kenway, co-author of the report Monitoring poverty and social exclusion, said, 'Progress on child poverty has...
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