3 miljoner i barnfattigdom
In a bleak assessment of changes in the government's
new social contract, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the
number of children in absolute poverty in 2015 will rise by 500,000 to 3
million.
Even worse, by 2020 3.3 million young people –
almost one in four children – will find themselves in relative child poverty.
This is 2 million short of the 2020 target to reduce child poverty to 10% or
less of all children, and represents an increase of 800,000 on the figures for
2011.
The IFS, the UK's leading public finance think tank,
warns: "Absolute and relative child poverty are forecast to be 23%
and 24% in 2020–21 respectively. These compare with the targets of
5% and 10%, set out in the Child Poverty Act (2010).
"This would be the highest rate of absolute
child poverty since 2001/02 and the highest rate of relative child poverty
since 1999/2000."