CPAG chief executive Kate Green welcomed Chancellor Gordon Brown's announcement of pilot schemes involving nursery education for 12,000 children in 500 areas and an additional 120,000 childcare places by 2008.
But she said the Government must 'shift up a gear if real, sustainable and long-term progress in tackling child poverty is to be achieved'.
Meanwhile the Scottish Executive's budget is to rise by 25.5 billion by 2007/08, but deputy minister for finance and public services Tavish Scott said that details of how the increased funds will be spent would not emerge until it holds its own spending review in September.
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