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To: Works and Pensions Secretary
All family review of child poverty
Ensure that the children of all families are included in the UK-wide Commission on Social Mobility and Child Poverty. As to exclude the children of in-work households from their definition of child poverty will distort the true figures of children potentially at risk.
Why is this important?
It is essential that we get a proper definition of child poverty so that any government can make proper decisions about how the will address child poverty. The decision to exclude in-work households means that the review will remove those families whose parents are working on low incomes and struggling to pay their bill!
This decision would mean a potentially huge chunk of potential vulnerable children will be excluded and probably not become entitled to any support that should be entitled to.
The UK has a a lot of low income families. Is this the reason they are excluded?
Support this campaign so that the commission can make a valued decision on how to properly address child poverty across the UK.
