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Child Poverty Act 2010

The purpose of the Act is to enshrine in law the Government's commitment to end child poverty by 2020.

The main elements of the Act are:

• Establishing a national and local accountability framework for delivering this goal. The Government will be required to produce child poverty strategies that run through to 2020 and are refreshed every three years.
• Ensuring that for first time Governments will be held to account on the success of their strategies to end child poverty, through annual reports to Parliament.
• Establishing a Child Poverty Commission, which will provide independent advice to the Government that must be considered when preparing child poverty strategies. To enhance accountability, this advice will also be published.
• Driving local action by placing a duty on all local authorities and their partners to co-operate to tackle child poverty in their area. As part of this, they will be required to conduct a local needs assessment and to produce a joint local child poverty strategy.

More information

• child poverty act - OPSI website

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