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12 July 2004

Child Poverty Review

In Budget 2003 the Chancellor announced the Child Poverty Review, to examine the welfare reform and public services changes necessary to advance towards the Government’s long-term goal of halving and eradicating child poverty.

The review’s terms of reference were to set out the policies necessary to:

  • increase employment opportunities, raising incomes for those who can work;
  • increase support for those who cannot work;
  • improve the effectiveness of public services that tackle material deprivation, for instance housing and homelessness;
  • improve those public services that can contribute most to increasing the future life chances of children in households suffering low income, for example education, and ensure public services and the welfare system work well together when families face crisis points in their lives; and
  • improve services for children and their families living in deprived areas, including targeted programmes.

The review’s findings are published alongside the 2004 Spending Review. The review team have worked closely with government departments, academics, voluntary and community sector organisations and others involved in service delivery. The review includes both medium-term plans emerging from the 2004.Spending Review, and an assessment of the longer-term direction which policy needs to take in order to meet the Government’s new child poverty target set out in the Spending Review.

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