Northern Ireland Executive, Government of Northern Ireland Country Resources Development and Poverty Strategies Northern Ireland Policy document

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This Child Poverty Strategy sets out the actions proposed by the Executive to address the issue of Child Poverty in Northern Ireland. It is laid before the Assembly in fulfillment of our obligations under the Child Poverty Act 2010.

This Strategy therefore sets out the key areas that we believe are crucial to address the causes and consequences of child poverty and to meet our statutory obligations. In considering all of these, there are effectively two key strands of work emerging relevant to the causes and the consequences of child poverty:
1. reducing poorly paid, work and unemployment amongst adults with
children
2. improving longer term prospects through child based interventions
which are designed to tackle the cyclical nature of child poverty

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