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Child Poverty Strategy proves government is in denial

Pupil wellbeing
The government's child poverty strategy continues to deny the impact that austerity and its programme of cuts have had on families and children. Until this changes, we cannot take it seriously, argues SecEd editor Pete Henshaw.

This is the final SecEd before the summer. As yet another year of churn and change comes to an end, there remain many issues of concern in education, many of which I have raised in this column during the past year. 

However, the one issue above all others that continues to shame our country and our politicians – and which is getting worse – is child poverty. This issue has come up time and time again in SecEd’s pages this year.

The government has this week published its 2014-17 Child Poverty Strategy (see SecEd's news article here). I commented on the draft of this document when it was published for consultation in March and my views have not changed (Child poverty plan: We really must do better: http://bit.ly/VrM6Ji).

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