Nursery World - Tributes paid to peer and anti-poverty campaigner Frank Field

Tributes have been paid by children’s charities to former Labour minister Frank Field, a veteran campaigner against poverty and social injustice.

Frank Field, Lord Field of Birkenhead PHOTO UK Parliament

Field was first elected as an MP for Birkenhead in 1979 and served as an MP for 40 years, one of the longest-serving MPs, before being made a peer in the House of Lords.

Field was a minister for welfare reform under Tony Blair and later chair of the work and pensions select committee.

He was director of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) from 1969 until 1979.

The charity’s chief executive Alison Garnham said, ‘Frank was a steadfast, highly successful and diligent campaigner against child poverty. It is largely down to Frank that we have child benefit today – a truly towering achievement.

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