The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has challenged the Government's commitment to tackling poverty in Britain and has called for ambitious targets to be met in the April budget. Its report, Poverty: The Facts, reveals that poverty in Britain is becoming an 'invisible' problem, and says that Glasgow has the worst social conditions of any city in the UK and that 29 per cent of Scottish children live in poverty. CPAG director Martin Barnes said, 'Perceptions of poverty are often stuck in a time warp. We do not apply the standards of the past to what is acceptable for our health service and education. The national obsession with wealth and the wealthy needs to be matched with an equal obsession about poverty and the poor.'
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