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<p>Making a meaningful difference to the lives of disadvantaged children requires
an approach that goes beyond the safety net of the welfare state to tackle the root
causes of child poverty and disadvantage. Work is key to alleviating poverty; children
in workless households are five times more likely to be in poverty than those in households
where all adults were working. And new analysis carried out by the Department for
Work and Pensions shows that children living in workless families are significantly
more disadvantaged, and achieve poorer outcomes than other children including those
in lower-income working families. This Government’s policies to support and encourage
work mean that there are 608,000 fewer children in workless households compared with
2010. <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families</em>, published on 4 April, set
out a framework for a continued focus on improving children’s outcomes, now and in
the future.</p>
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