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Spending Review
12 July 2004
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:
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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