Policy paper

Child poverty in the UK: the report on the 2010 target

Reports the 2010 to 2011 relative income child poverty figures and explains why the target to halve child poverty by 2010 were missed.

• From: Department for Education and Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 17 June 2012

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Child poverty in the UK: the report on the 2010 target

Ref: ISBN 9780108511820, DFE-30018-2012

PDF, 607 KB, 28 pages

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Details

The previous government set a target to reduce the number of children living in relative income poverty by half by 2010 to 2011 from a 1998 to 1999 baseline. Section 1 of the Child Poverty Act 2010 requires the government to produce a report on whether or not this target was met.

Published 17 June 2012