By Neil O'Brien In the FT this morning Nick Timmins suggests that the Conservatives are considering widening the child poverty target into a wider set of indicators in order to get a more in-depth measure of poverty. The current child...

Tory MP and member of the Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee, John Penrose, on child poverty, inequality and the potentially counterproductive effects of tax cuts If you think you understand child poverty, try answering this question. If the Government cuts taxes for below-average earners, low income families will be better off and child poverty will go down, right? Er, well, not necessari...

George Galloway today described the figures on child poverty in his constituency as “truly shocking”. The Campaign to End Child Poverty, an umbrella organisation for more than 130 including Barnardo’s, Unicef and the NSPCC, has produced research showing 5.5 million children in poverty in Britain. Bethnal Green and Bow has some of the highest concentrations

Welsh targets to eradicate child poverty will not be met without more money from Westminster, a leading children's charity has warned. Labour has pledged to wipe out child poverty by 2020, but Barnardos Cymru said it had serious doubts. Figures show over a quarter of children in Wales live below the poverty line.

Patrick Wintour Political editor The recession will make it more difficult for the government to meet its pledge to end child poverty, ministers admitted yesterday as they issued details of plans to place a legal duty on them to eradicate child poverty by 2020. Until now ministers have primarily defined the abolition of child poverty as ensuring that no households with children earn less than 60% ...

The United Kingdom is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. All fair and nice cuddly politics. Now the UK has a general reservation against the UN Convention on Rights of the Child. The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture argues The general reservation states that: "The United Kingdom reserves the right to apply such legislation, in so far as it relates to ...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is calling for the government to spend an extra £4.2 billion to fight "child poverty" - but genuine child poverty doesn't exist in Britain. The claim is based on relative poverty - a belief that if you are in a family earning a certain percentage of the average minimum wage, then you are officially classified as in poverty. There are problems with this def...

The latest child poverty figures were very disappointing; it is time to insist that there is no solution to children’s poverty that ignores the poverty of their parents. Last week the newspapers gave the Government a kicking thoroughly examined the figures from the latest Households Below...

How many of the 5.5m children "living in, or on the brink of poverty" have parents who can afford to drink and smoke!?! Who is responsible for "lifting" Karen Matthews' family out of poverty when she has had seven children by five different fathers. Government targets for reducing child poverty should focus on discouraging the feckless and work shy from having more and more children rather th...

Welsh Assembly Government - This Statistical Bulletin summarises the latest information on the indicators monitoring progress against the Welsh Assembly Government`s Child Poverty Strategy.