Impact of Child Poverty Policy on Children, Families, and Practitioners

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
Sociology
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Introduction
The context of the social policy is how the society responds to the social problems.
Any of the governmental enactments that tend to affect the wellbeing of the people that
furthermore incudes the regulations, the law , the executive orders and the decision of the
court is a social policy (Wickham et al. 2016). The context of the social policy is a big
concern since it tends to affect the society and the behaviour of the human and also their
importance for their practise of the social work (Mansour and Megan 2019). In the year 2010,
the act of the child poverty was passed with the enacted of the cross party support. Some of
the main or the major issues that this particular social policy of the child poverty aims the
relative poverty, combined low income and material deprivation, the absolute poverty and the
persistent poverty. This poverty act furthermore imposed governmental legal duty to move
towards the condition of the children and the infants (Bradshaw 2016). The thesis statement
of the essay argues with the fact of the various views regarding this are of the policy, the
child poverty in the context of the research reports and the governmental publications. The
essay furthermore demonstrate my personal understanding related to the purpose of the
assignment as per the structure of the assignment.
Discussion
The act imposed some of the major legal duties over the governments for moving towards the
targets by the ear 2020 as follows.
The condition of relative poverty – This is for the 10% of the children or the infants living
below the low income families. For the aim or the purpose of this particular target, the low
incomes is being illustrated as the net or the total income level that is below 60% of the
regular statistics.

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The condition of the combination of the material deprivation and the low income - This is for
less than 5% of the children for living in the material deprivation and the low income
families. For the purpose of this particular target, the context of the low income is being
defined an equivalised net income that is below 70% of the regular statistics (Main and
Bradshaw 2016).
The condition of absolute poverty – This is for less than 12% of the children for living in the
absolute low income families. For the purpose of this particular target, the absolute lo income
is being defined as the equivalised new income that is below the 6-% of the base year
amount.
The social policy act also required the government to produce the strategy of the child
poverty within one year. Before the development and the implementation of the act, the
strategy and the aims related to the act was being delayed beyond the timeframe and has
furthermore suffered from various of the shortcomings.
The child poverty act 2010 is the act of the parliament of the United Kingdom for
setting some of the realistic targets that are related to the eradication of the child poverty and
for making the provision regarding the child poverty (Marsh, 2019). The act showcases the
children as the victim of the society that has been destroying their health and the status of
wellbeing. Some of the major controversies and the potential issues that are related to the
policy includes the lack of the proper implementation of the child poverty policy thorough
out the world. According to some of the reports and the research, most of the countries have
been using this law to showcase their achievement of the sustainable development of the
millennium goals, which in short is not true (Minkovitz, O'Neill and Duggan 2016). The
strength of the policy is that it aims towards the eradication of the poverty and the
malnutrition among the children for the promotion of the effective health and the wellbeing.