Warning as child poverty continues

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The statistics for households below average income (HBAI) show there were consistent falls from 1998 in the number of children living in poverty but between 2006 and 2008 there was no change.

Campaigners accused the Government of "breaking its promise" to lift up to three million children out of poverty by 2010/11.

The 2010-11 milestone was originally set in 1999 by then Prime Minister Tony Blair - when 3.4 million children were defined as living in poverty - as an interim target on the way to eradicating child poverty altogether by 2020.

Since then, ministers say they have succeeded in lifting 600,000 children out of poverty, while a further 500,000 will be helped by measures that have been put in place since 2007.

However that still leaves a further 600,000 if the 2010-11 target is to be met.

The latest National Statistics figures show no change in the number of children whose families are living on a low income.

But there was a small rise - of 100,000 - of families living on a low income after they have paid for their housing but statisticians said that it was "not a statistically significant rise".

Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said that in the current economic climate, "meeting the 2010 target is very difficult. It is very difficult to model the impact of the recession on child poverty."

But, she said, the government remains, "absolutely committed" to the 2020 target.