The charity's report said that nearly a third of UK children live in relative poverty and the rate has more than trebled in the past 20 years, peaking in the late 1990s. Its publication coincided with prime minister Tony Blair's launch last week of the Government's own annual report into child poverty and his pledge to do more to tackle it by 'redistributing wealth and opportunity to the many, not the few'.
Andrew Smith, work and pensions secretary, said 1.4 million fewer children were living on absolute low income than in 1997 and that the Government was committed to cutting the number in low income households by a quarter by 2004.
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