Child poverty rises by 200,000 on previous year, official figures show

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Child poverty is now up to 29 per cent Getty

Child poverty has risen by 200,000 children over the past year, new official figures show. The numbers, released today as the Government faced paralysis in the wake of the EU referendum result, show 29 per cent of children are now classed as being in poverty.

The households below average income (HBAI) statistics for 2014/15, published by the Department for Work and Pensions, reveal that 3.9 million children are now in families struggling to make ends meet. Of those families, two-thirds (66 per cent) have at least one adult in work ? with poverty now longer being the preserve of the jobless.

?A decade ago, when David Cameron became party leader, he promised that under his leadership his party would measure and act on child poverty. It?s a tragedy that we are now talking about rises in child poverty, not falls.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-poverty-increase-tories-200000-per-cent-2014-2015-official-figures-dwp-stephen-crabb-a7107306.html

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Dave did promise to end child poverty. He was doing this by lowering the scale by which poverty is measured. Iian Duncan Smith made the change for him.

The definition of child poverty will be changed, Iain Duncan Smith has announced as the government attacked the current measurement as “deeply flawed”.

Child poverty will no longer be defined as 60 per cent of the average income but through a series of indicators including exam results and whether parents are in work.

Mr Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said the new approach was designed to bring about “meaningful change” in children’s life chances.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...can-Smith.html

Moving the goalposts hasn't worked for them has it. short memories.