The government has placed the raising of educational attainment at the heart of its 2014 to 2017 Child Poverty Strategy.
The document, published last week, reconfirms the government’s previous commitment to ending child poverty in the UK by 2020.
It maintains that work and education are the best routes out of poverty, but also outlines some measures to help disadvantaged families cope with rising living costs.
In the document, the government quotes figures showing that since 2010 the number of children aged under-16 in workless households has fallen by 290,000.
However, 3.5 million children are currently living in poverty and research published last month by Save the Children warned that this is set to get worse.
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