Child Poverty Action Group - Lobbying For Government

The Child Poverty Action Group was set up by concerned social workers back in 1965. At the time they wrote to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, explaining 'at least half a million children are in homes where there is hardship due to poverty.' According to the CPAG website there are '3.5 million children in poverty in the UK, 27% of children, more than one in four.'
The problem they say is seven times worse than in 1965! They can't be doing a very good job!
Apparently, during the Blair/Brown years, 1.1 million children were 'lifted' out of poverty by a combination of Feminism in action and Big Government. Many more lone mothers went out to work full time and there were 'real and often significant increases' in benefits.
Unfortunately, this current, rather nasty, government will increase child poverty by 600,000 by 2015. By 2020, they reckon 4.7 million children will be living in poverty.
Amongst CPAG  policies is lobbying for increased higher rate income tax, increased inheritance tax and giving benefits to illegal immigrants.
The CPAG gained huge amounts of state funding during the New Labour years, as the government sought to assimilate the voluntary sector as a branch of government. It receives Lottery funding, of course, and it has had lucrative contracts with HM Revenues and Customs and the Scottish government for 'tax credits publications, advice and training', all of which dwarf the mealy amounts it raises through private donations and legacies.
Basically, whatever its origins, the Child Poverty Action Group is a state funded lobby group calling for higher taxes and greater bureaucracy. For the CPAG, alleviating poverty means more State, which, of course, means more violence against you and me.