NCT Watch

The Campaign to End Child Poverty welcomed this week’s budget announcement as a signal of the Government’s continuing commitment to ending child poverty. The Chancellor boldly set out the Government’s intention to end child poverty with investments of nearly £1 billion through increasing child benefit and child tax credits.
The campaign welcomed the measures stating that with nearly £1 billion in this week’s budget, the Government had shown it’s determination to keep their promise to a generation and invest in the 3.8 million children being held back by poverty in the UK today. These measures will not on their own hit the crucial target of halving child poverty by 2010 but they are an encouraging and important step forward.

 The Campaign to End Child Poverty, of which the NCT is a member will increase the pressure on the government this year to keep its child poverty promise.”