Eradicating child poverty by 2020
Summary
This strategy document from the Department for Work and
Pensions
'Working
for Children' (Cm. 7067) sets out proposed measures to help achieve the
Government's target of eradicating child poverty by 2020. It is based on the
principle that improving employment opportunities for parents is the most
sustainable route out of poverty for themselves and their children.
These measures follow on from
'Budget
2007' (HC 342) and form part of the Government's cross-departmental
strategy to tackle child poverty through a whole range of policy areas,
including tax and benefits, health and housing, childcare and education.
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Law-Making Explained
This is a Command Paper
(Cm. 7067 2006-07): it is a White Paper from the Department for Work and
Pensions (DWP).
Find out more about White
Papers.
How does it affect me?
If you are a parent and qualify for either the New Deal Plus for Lone
Parents or the In-Work Credit, this affects you.
Measures announced
include:
- Extending the New Deal Plus for Lone Parents (NDLP Plus)
to March 2011 and to cover all lone parents in London and to extend key
elements of this support programme to two-parent families on benefit in the
current pilot areas and throughout London
- Extending the In-Work Credit
for Lone Parents scheme (which provides an extra £40 per week for lone parents
moving into work in 40 per cent of the country, including most of London) until
June 2008 and to increase the rate payable in London to £60
- Pilot
schemes to link the In-Work Credit to adviser support to promote retention in
work for lone parents, based on the Employment Retention and Advancement model
- A major expansion of work-focused English as a Second Language
provision, delivered through the cities strategy pilots in East and West
London.
Find out more about
New
Deal Plus for Lone Parents.
See more on
benefits for people with
children on the Department for Work and Pensions website.
