Just how effective is the Government's Sure Start programme? asks Dr Helen Penn
ritain has more millionaires than any other European country, yet other countries have poverty levels which are much lower. In most of Scandinavia poverty is under 5 per cent, while in Flanders, a part of Belgium I recently visited, it is only 6 per cent. So why is one in three children in the UK living in poverty?
The Government is convinced the answer does not lie in any kind of redistribution of income through taxation or more money for public services. Whatever might have gone wrong in the past to create poverty, now the poor must be made to stand on their own feet. They must acquire 'social capital', learn new skills, find employment and take control over their lives.
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