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Government outlines new ways to lift children out of poverty and increase social mobility
Department for Children, Schools and Families (National)
A package of new initiatives to help families and end child poverty as part of a renewed drive to increase social mobility will be announced by Children’s Secretary Ed Balls, Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Yvette Cooper today.
The announcement of the pilot measures come ahead of a speech on social mobility by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown this evening. The Prime Minister will say that unleashing a new wave of social mobility must be the driving ambition of the Government. The new measures aim to put some of the poorest children on the path to success, delivering prosperity and fairness for hard-working families that play by the rules and breaking cycles of poverty once and for all.
The pilots will build on already successful initiatives - such as offering new services in children’s centres as well as testing new approaches to improving families’ incomes.
For more infomation on the story and the initiatives please visit http://nds.coi.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=371596&NewsAreaID=2
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