Daycare Trust joint chief executive Alison Garnham, and Jane Waldfogel,a researcher at the London School of Economics, claim that improvingquality, availability and accessibility of childcare are all crucial tothe UK meeting its 2020 deadline to end child poverty.
They make their recommendations in What is needed to end child povertyin 2020, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The reportassesses Government progress so far, and calls for more investment in arange of measures covering education, improved workplace pay andflexibility, and childcare.
The publication coincides with concerns highlighted by the End ChildPoverty Campaign, which condemns the Chancellor's Pre Budget Report as amissed opportunity to help the one in three children currently living inpoverty.
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