The Joseph Rowntree Foundation said the rise in children living in poverty was the most serious setback to the Government's child poverty campaign. It found that no progress had been made in three years and said the Government's child poverty strategy was in urgent need of a major re-think.
Peter Kenway, co-author of the report Monitoring poverty and social exclusion, said, 'Progress on child poverty has stalled at a level that is only halfway to the target set for two years ago. Tax credits may be working, but they are not enough on their own. Yet the Government's budgetary and legislative programme set out this autumn contains no substantial ideas about what should be done.'
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