Child Poverty in Wales - new research

Over 30% of children in Wales live in poverty: a stronger strategy needed to eradicate child poverty.So says JRF new publication,launched today
The first half of the last decade (1999–2005) saw the proportion of children in poverty in Wales fall more quickly than in any English region, numbers have now increased with 32% of children in Wales still living in poverty. Of the 192,000 children living in poverty, around 60% live in a household where their parents do not work and 42% live in a lone-parent household.
Author Victoria Winckler, of the Bevan Foundation, said: "If the Assembly Government is to meet its 2020 target it will need to introduce a wider range of policies, and provide a clearer focus on what is needed to help parents enter and stay in work. A good start has been made in addressing child poverty through education. This may have a positive longer-term impact on children’s well-being, but it will have little effect in the short term."Many of the changes required to completely eradicate child poverty across the UK will need to be made by the UK Government, but the Assembly Government still has a crucial role to play in combating child poverty in Wales."
It will take in my opinion , real commitment and real cash invested in the economy here in Wales.
Better jobs , better paid , improved flexible childcare and most difficult , people believing in themselves and seeing a future.
Routes out of poverty are paved with good intentions,that's the trouble.
many initiatives like for example Job match are out of date. Initiatives should not be static , one size doesn't fit all and not for all time. Seeing some true figures from all of these schemes would be a good start.