Campaign to end child poverty
March 7, 2008
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell, speaking at the Labour Party Conference last week has asserted that the goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020 is ‘non negotiable’, as not only is it a scar on Britain’s conscious, it is also fundamental to achieving real life chances for all.
Kate Green responded stating that the Labour Party could take pride in its child poverty pledge, as it showed that the right selection of policies could make a real different to the quality of life in Britain. However, she argued that a number of elements surrounding welfare reform were heading in the wrong direction if the 2020 target was to be met. She said Labour needed to stop rubbishing financial support for those who genuinely need it.
Entry Filed under: Early parenthood, England, Parliamentary update. Tags: End Child Poverty, England, labour conference, NCT.
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Ayesha | June 12, 2008 at 6:57 am
According to ILO estimates, there are some
250 million children between the ages of 5 and14
years who are in economic activity in developing
countries alone. For 120 million of them, work is a
full-time activity. The remainder combine work with
schooling or other non-economic activities.
While most child labour is found in the developing
regions of the world, industrialized countries are not
entirely free of it either. In Eastern and Central
Europe, for example, child labour has been
reappearing in the wake of social and economic
dislocation caused by the transition to a market
economy.
In absolute terms, Asia, being the most densely
populated region of the world, has the largest number
of child workers. 61 per cent are found in Asia, 32 per
cent in Africa and 7 per cent in Latin America