England’s Children still live in poverty and the numbers are growing under British rule, as British MP’s live life’s of luxury using English taxes to feather their own nests and England’s child starve
Ministers are making it a legal duty for the government, local authorities and other organizations to help to end child poverty across the UK.
The government looks set to miss its own targets on cutting the numbers of children living in poverty.
A new bill being published later will make it a duty to support families so that child poverty is eradicated by 2020, the goal set by Tony Blair.
Campaigners say this means future governments cannot easily drop the aim.
The latest figures available, for 2007/8, put the number of children living in poverty at 2.9 million.
Poverty in this case is measured relatively - those who live in households with an income of less than 60% of the average.
Since Tony Blair set the target of ending child poverty by 2020, the government says it has lifted half a million children out of poverty, down from 3.4 million in 1999.
