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Child Poverty Act 2010

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Citation
  
2010 c. 9

Royal assent
  
25 March 2010

Child Poverty Act 2010

Long title
  
An Act to set targets relating to the eradication of child poverty, and to make other provision about child poverty

Introduced by
  
Stephen Timms and Lord McKenzie of Luton

Territorial extent
  
England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Commencement
  
25 March 2010 (All provisions except Part 2 and section 26) 25 May 2010 (Part 2 and section 26)

The Child Poverty Act 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ‘to set targets relating to the eradication of child poverty, and to make other provision about child poverty’. It received Royal Assent on 25 March 2010.

The Act also created the Child Poverty Commission.

References

Child Poverty Act 2010 Wikipedia