The Department of Work and Pensions was set to publish its HouseholdsBelow Average Income Statistics for 2006/07 on 10 June. The Governmentis expected to miss its target to halve child poverty by 2010 by almosthalf a million children. Chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group(CPAG), Kate Green, said, 'It's a moral disgrace that we still have oneof the worst child poverty records in Europe. Other countries do better,so why should British children suffer? We can end our child povertyshame, and we must.' The CPAG is campaigning for another 3billion in funding to be made to raise 1.7 million children out ofpoverty.
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