25 Feb 2020

Child poverty no worse, no better - Children's Commissioner

From Checkpoint, 5:25 pm on 25 February 2020

No worse, but no better - that is the conclusion of the Children's Commissioner following the release of the latest child poverty statistics.

While the government is claiming it's lifted more than 18,000 kids out of poverty by one measure, by others there's been no significant change or progress.

So is the government making in-roads on its promise to tackle child poverty?

RNZ social issues reporter Sarah Robson filed this report.