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4Children advises ways to meet poverty targets
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
30 April 2008
An independent child poverty commission should be created to spearhead the fight against social inequality, allied to guaranteed childcare, positive activities for older children and increases in tax credits and benefits, the charity 4Children said on Monday.
The recommendations are made in a policy pamphlet, Turning Up the Volume on Child Poverty, which includes contributions from the three major political parties and was launched at the charity's annual conference in London. The Government should build on the free entitlement for three- and four-year-olds and offer an 'early years childcare guarantee for every parent to ensure that there is flexible and...
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