Massive cuts in Children's Services will not end Child Poverty

I read with interest Rob Wilson MP's diary on 16.12.2010 where he conveniently forgets that Britain was going through the worst global economic recession in living memory in 2008/9 when he mentions Reading's child poverty figures. What he also forgets is that the last Labour Government and Reading Borough Council did everything it could to protect children and families from the worst of the recession by protecting Sure Start and Child Credits, something he intends to abolish as soon as possible.

Rob Wilson will never be able to state that his Government took record numbers of millions of children out of poverty in the last ten years as the Tories are hellbent on slashing and burning Children's Services. This current coalition in Reading cannot even commit to keeping disabled children's play clubs as they get ready to end funding of youth clubs and sell off nurseries. Rather than criticise the last government for trying to protect Children's Services during the recession the Tories should explain how they are going to end child poverty by cutting valuable services.