Legislation
The Child Poverty Act 2010
OVERVIEW OF THE ACT
This Act places the governmental objective of reducing child poverty on a statutory footing. Ambitiously, it enacts a range of targets which the Secretary of state is required to meet by the financial year 2020/21. At a local level, the Act also establishes local child poverty partnerships and requires local child poverty strategies to be put in place.
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE
- To find out about the 2010 non-binding child poverty target, see section 1.
- To find out about the longer-term binding child poverty targets, see sections 2 to 7.
- To find out about the statutory UK child poverty strategy, see sections 9 and 14 to 16.
- To find out about local authority-led partnerships to tackle child poverty, and local child poverty strategies, see sections 19 to 23.
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