Save the Children's response to the budget: 21 March 2007
Whilst the 2007 budget measures will lift 200,000 children out of poverty, 3.2 million children missing out on the best start in life.
Wednesday 21 March 2007
Claire Walker, UK spokesperson for Save the Children, said: "While these policies will help all families this is not a budget for the very poorest children in the UK. Today's announcements are a step towards the major investment needed to end child poverty but while these measures will lift 200,000 children out of poverty, that still leaves 3.2 million children missing out on the best start in life and the Government off track on its own child poverty target. These children can't wait.
As part of the campaign to End Child Poverty, Save the Children calls on the Chancellor to build on these policies and introduce seasonal grants and make child benefit equal for every child, which would better target the poorest children."
