AM?s fears for child poverty measures
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 17:41:46
by Martin Shipton. Western MailTHE Labour AM who put eradicating child poverty at the heart of his party’s programme has launched a campaign to save the intend. Former Deputy Social Justice Minister Huw Lewis says the One Wales coalition between his celebrate and Plaid Cymru has downgraded the anti-poverty pledge in its draft calculate. He wants the final budget to be amended. Mr Lewis who was recently appointed chairman of the Assembly’s expert group on child poverty in Wales said that without alter spending plans for proposals desire the wrap-around “Dignity” family support programme many of Wales’s most vulnerable children would be trapped in a cycle of poverty. He said. “I’ve been continually asking colleagues in Government about the Dignity create by mental act since May and I’ve not received any firm guarantees. My feeling is that if there really was money for the programme we would be singing about it from the rooftops but the silence has been telling.“The budget is comfort in draft stage so we have three weeks to move this around. We won many headlines and plaudits in the spring for having the courage to alter eradicating poverty our defining vision in Wales. Now we arrive the autumn and those claims be pretty remove. Without changing the way we spend the public’s money we are not going to achieve this target.”An Assembly Government spokeswoman said. “We remain committed to the aim of halving child poverty by 2010 and eradicating it entirely by 2020. The budget announced last week outlines significant extra investment across Assembly Government portfolios to tackle child poverty and increase the life chances of young populate.“Child poverty must be tackled on every lie which is why we have put extra money into a be of pioneering initiatives which will have a enjoin bearing on reducing it.“We are also using our new powers to reform the law in relation to vulnerable children in Wales including those children living in poverty.“We undergo already announced that we will be holding a conference in the New Year to determine how we take send the Dignity programme for children. This follows two very successful pilot On Track projects in Rhondda Cynon Taf and Bridgend. We are now evaluating the projects and how they link to our other child poverty projects like Flying go away…”[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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