Milburn: Government will miss poverty target

Secretary of Health called the former for white paper on social justice to shift focus to 800,000 children under five living below the poverty line

Alan Milburn, the coalition adviser on social mobility, has warned that the government will meet its legally binding targets for reducing child poverty by 2020, and calls to become re-focused on the 800,000 children under five years living below the poverty line.

In his remarks at first as "independent review" of government policy, the former secretary of labor calls for the future health of white paper, Social Justice Iain Duncan Smith to the case to reduce child poverty. If such a deprivation "does not fall, social mobility will not rise," he said.

Milburn commended the policies of the coalition, as universal and premium credit per student, but he said. . "Progress on child poverty has stagnated Worse than that, it certainly has begun to reverse child poverty is likely to continue to increase ... and objectives of child poverty is not simply to be. "

said that £ 19 billion is required to pay taxes to meet the 2020 target, only a maximum of 10% of children who remain in relative poverty before that date. He said ministers should "clean up and make it clear that" it would not be possible.

The government recently admitted in the state drop another 100,000 children are prone to falling into poverty, and noted a review of the target set by the job.

Milburn, said that services are focused on preschool children living in poverty should be the focus of politics in the coming years, with the money for the care of children, parents and education and work pay. While Britain spent 3.6% of national income on family benefits, which was higher than the average 2.2% in rich countries, most welfare services rather than Support.

Scandinavian country expenditures went to services. Milburn said that therefore these nations did better "in terms of lower child poverty, gender equality, improving employment rates in families, enrollment and improving care for children under six years. "

• The Labour politician, who was raised by a single mother on a council area, said the UK had enough invested in childcare, dedicating 0.5% of the resources in investment relative to the Nordic countries, 2%.
• The impact on family income, lack of investment in child care has been dramatic, said Milburn. British women were not able to return to work after the birth of a child in the same numbers as in the rest of the rich world and 42% of the time women work part because of family responsibilities, the highest OECD

parents have also become more involved, Milburn said, explaining that "the interest of parents in the education of a child is four times more effect on the attainment of age 16 year old who does socio-economic environment. "He cited a study by the think tank the Foundation resolution, which covers more than 15,000 five years, which found that children from families with low income and middle-income were five months behind in vocabulary to start school, and presented more behavioral problems compared to children from higher income families.

Milburn requested that the debate be repositioned so that the fight against poverty must be part of a wider struggle against insecurity, saying that would be welcomed with a class "mean forgotten ". He also called for a coalition against poverty, a problem that is new in a speech in shops closed professions, which tend to close for young talent from disadvantaged backgrounds.

"A society where opportunities are hoarded rather than spread more painful than those at the lower end."
charities and activists welcome speech Milburn, saying the prime minister should take his advice to reduce child poverty a priority.

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