Child Poverty Action Group call for David Cameron to make firm commitment on child poverty
May 1, 2008
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) have commented on David Cameron’s statement this week that ‘we can end poverty - I mean it!’ Cameron was speaking at the Conservative Party event to launch the report ‘Making British Poverty History’.
Kate Green, Chief Executive at CPAG says that while they welcome the attention the Conservatives are giving child poverty, “unlike all the other parties, he still won’t make this a promise. Ending child poverty is a marathon not a sprint, but like a marathon, it is achievable. You don’t ask for support to run a marathon by saying you ‘aspire’ to jog for a bit, you have a clear target to run 26 miles. As the only mainstream British party not to have a firm commitment to eradicate child poverty in a generation, it’s time for Cameron to prove he has faith in his party’s proposals and turn the ‘aspiration’ to end child poverty into a promise.’
Entry Filed under: England, Parliamentary update. Tags: NCT, David Cameron, Child poverty.
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Jamal Affwat | May 2, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Be vary careful about the Poverty debate. Everyone knows about bell-distributions, outliers and populations. And we also know that investing in poverty-welfare institutionalises poverty by reinforcing symptoms. We have to think systemically about educating people out of poverty instead of investing in its continuance.