Back to work?

Employment and employability are usually seen as key factors in reducing child poverty. Latests results from the Local Authority Child Poverty Innovation Pilots confirm this. Assessing what's been achieved thus far in the ten pilot programmes, it's clear that employment related support, from basic skills training to in-work support, has been in high demand. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's latest poverty and social exclusion monitoring report confirms the significance of worklessness, as it reviews the impact of recession on the UK. In-work poverty and underemployment are two issues highlighted by the report's authors, as numbers of children in poverty belonging to working families has started to rise.