A report by the Department of Work and Pensions found that child poverty has fallen by only 17 per cent, or 700,000 children - 300,000 children short of the target. It showed that there were 3.4 million children in the UK living in poverty, after housing costs.
In 2004-05 a couple with two children aged five and 11 with an income less than 268 a week, or 13,936 a year, would be considered living below the poverty line. For a lone parent, with the same number and age of children, this would be an income of less than 186 a week, or 9,672 a year.
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