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Child Poverty - can it be eliminated by 2020? |
21 Jul 2006 |
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With more than three million children living in poverty, the UK still has one of the highest child poverty rates in the EU. Early in his premiership Tony Blair pledged to halve child poverty by 2010, and to abolish it by 2020. However, experts predict the Government is likely to miss these targets.
Last week Lisa Harker took up her new post as the Government's independent advisor or "Child Poverty Tsar". But can the woman tasked with helping to end child poverty succeed?
Martha talks to Lisa Harker about her plans and to Donald Hirsch who has written a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Child Poverty Action Group
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