Plans to deal with child poverty under fire

The Government’s approach to child poverty has been severely criticised by the Children’s Ombudsman.

Plans to deal with child poverty under fire

Niall Muldoon said that the Government’s target of reducing to 37,000 the number of children living in poverty by 2020 was still “unacceptably high”.

In his report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, he said the target represented an acceptance of a higher rate of consistent poverty among children than in the general population.

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