This report is the Government’s first national Child Poverty Strategy, it sets out a new approach to tackling poverty from now right up until 2020. Its main priorities are strengthening families, encouraging responsibility, promoting work, guaranteeing fairness and providing support to the most vulnerable.
It is set alongside the Child Poverty Act 2010, which established income targets for 2020 and a duty to minimise socio-economic disadvantage. This strategy meets the requirement to set out the proposed measures to make progress between 2011 and 2014. It is also in line with the recent spending Review that placed a very high priority on improving the life chances of children and the protection of vulnerable families, while also making crucial progress in reducing the nation’s debt.
The following strategy has been put together across government and covers the period 2011-14, capturing the breadth of flagship policies and reform programmes put in place to tackle poverty.
The full report is 79 pages...very long but the summary at least is worth a read! (link is below - the download is free!)
https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/CM%208061
so you have already done your homework! great find.x x
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