The new Labour Government in Britain has made the reduction of child poverty one of its central objectives. This paper … setting out the extent of the problem of child poverty, the causes are discussed and Britain's problem is set in international … perspective. The impact on child poverty of policies designed to raise incomes directly is analysed using micro …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A poverty level of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimates of Households Below Average Income are based. There was a small reduction in poverty … overall and a larger proportionate fall in child poverty. This fall was attributable in part to increased employment and in …