A £5-a-week increase in child benefit would see families gain £340 a year on average and lift 200,000 children out of poverty. 2020 marks the year by which I had hoped we would have met this goal or eradicating child poverty. Sadly, this progress on child poverty has been lost over the last decade. When I set the target of eradicating child poverty entirely by 2020 I knew the goal was ambitious. As a country, let’s recommit to eradicating child poverty within a generation.

Source: Daily Mirror November 24, 2020 20:00 UTC