Labour will need to renew
its commitments on child poverty and change gear change on climate change to bring progressive energy back to Labour.
Not exact matches
The programme also included a number of previously announced measures, such as giving agency workers equal rights
on pay, holidays and basic conditions, and introducing a binding
commitment to abolish
child poverty by 2020.
The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory
commitment to reduce
child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of
child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the
commitment to reduce and end
child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise
on the range of policy options necessary to get
on track.
Inform Influence Impact: The Role of Research in Supporting a Community's
Commitment to Its
Children (PDF - 1650 KB) Case Western Reserve University, Center
on Urban
Poverty and Community Development (2009) Presents activities and outcomes of Invest in
Children, a 10 - year, public - private partnership created to increase the development, funding, visibility, and impact of early childhood services in Cuyahoga County, OH.
Inform Influence Impact: The Role of Research in Supporting a Community's
Commitment to Its
Children (PDF - 1650 KB) Case Western Reserve University, Center
on Urban
Poverty and Community Development (2009) Presents activities and outcomes of Invest in
Children, a 10 - year, public - private partnership created to increase the development, funding, visibility, and impact of early childhood services in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.