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Budget means a standing start for child poverty strategy - 23rd of Jun, 2010
Commenting on today's Emergency Budget, Shan Nicholas, spokesperson for End Child Poverty and Chief Executive of host organisation Child Poverty Action Group, said:
“The Budget promised that no more children would be in poverty, but it does not go far enough to pass the fairness test. An important increase in Child Tax Credit may just keep a child poverty rise in check, but the numbers growing up in poverty certainly won’t fall. With nearly 4 million children living below the poverty line, maintaining the status quo will not do.
“The VAT rise, the freeze on Child Benefit and cuts to benefit uprating are all regressive measures. While they will be offset by tax threshold and tax credit changes, the Government should have used progressive taxation for greater fairness.
“Each Budget that goes by without progress on the child poverty targets, time runs out and the promised improvements to children’s lives get left in limbo.
“Ending child poverty is not only of moral importance, we must cut the annual cost to Britain of £25 billion from the social and economic problems that result for a sustained economic recovery.”
Notes to Editors
- ECP backs the 'Fairness Test' call on the Government to have a transparent process for ensuring that decisions on deficit reduction do not increase inequality - and hence poverty - so that fairness is hardwired into decision making.
- ECP is a coalition of over 150 member organisations campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goals of halving child poverty by 2010 and ending child poverty by 2020 are met.
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