{"id":748,"date":"2007-12-12T13:56:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T12:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=748"},"modified":"2007-12-12T13:56:25","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T12:56:25","slug":"how-much-child-poverty-is-there-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"How much child poverty is there in Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the week in which the Government has issued a 10-year <a href=\"http:\/\/education.guardian.co.uk\/policy\/story\/0,,2225928,00.html\">Children&#8217;s Plan<\/a> running to 170 pages, it is salutary to appreciate that, although new research shows nearly 41% of the British public believing that there is &#8220;very little&#8221; child poverty in this country, official statistics reveal that around 3 million child are still in poverty in one of the richest countries on earth.<br \/>\nThe Government defines child poverty as children living in a household on less than 60% of median income, adjusted for the composition of the household. The median is the halfway point between the nation&#8217;s highest and lowest incomes.<br \/>\nWhen Labour took power in 1997, it inherited the highest levels of child poverty in the European Union which had tripled since 1979. It has found tackling the issue in government harder than it expected.<br \/>\nThe Government has a declared target of cutting child poverty from 3 million children in 1999 to 1.7 million in 2010. At present the number of families in child poverty has fallen only to 2.8 million. In fact, there was an increase of 200,000 children living in poverty in 2005-06, the last year for which there are figures.<br \/>\nYou can find more information on the situation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/guardianpolitics\/story\/0,,2225496,00.html\">here<\/a> and check out the End Child Poverty Campaign web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endchildpoverty.org.uk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the week in which the Government has issued a 10-year Children&#8217;s Plan running to 170 pages, it is salutary to appreciate that, although new research shows nearly 41% of the British public believing that there is &#8220;very little&#8221; child poverty in this country, official statistics reveal that around 3 million child are still in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}