Last month 10,000 people came to the End Child Poverty rally in Trafalgar square to urge the government to keep the promise to halve child poverty by 2010; the key measure we were demanding was an extra £3 billion in tax credits and benefits for children. Did today’s pre-budget report move us...

As you know, there is no such thing as child poverty in the United Kingdom. That does not stop leftists from gibbering on about it, although the new term is "relative poverty". Ranting Rab deals with the lastest lefty lunacy..... As for 'child poverty', I'm struggling to understand what child poverty actually is in this country. I've never seen a child with rickets. Nor a malno...

Child poverty costs the economy at least £25bn each year, according to a new report.

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...

A Labour MP has called on the chancellor to take "further steps" in the 2009 Budget to tackle child poverty.

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% ...

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.

The Budget’s new programme for unemployed young people is very welcome, and bears a certain resemblance to the TUC’s proposals for an intermediate labour market programme, but I can’t help being disappointed by the non-action on child poverty. Like other organisations in the End...