Research Paper on:
The Issue of Child Poverty in Great Brittan

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more pragmatically, none should be disadvantaged." Despite agreement with this lofty goal, many countries, including many industrialized countries such as the United Kingdom, have had difficulty in achieving this  ideal. The following examination of child poverty in the UK demonstrates the parameters of this social problem and how it is currently being addressed. In December of 2002,  Alan Milburn, who has been in charge of structural change in the national health service (NHS), set out a new agenda for pursuing national preventive health initiatives. These included a  stated goal to halt the widening health inequalities within Britain (Dean, 2002). Milburn was blunt as he outlined the failure of the NHS, despite its 50 year history,  to halt the increasing health inequalities in the UK. Substantiating this position, the Office of National Statistics has issued figures that show boys born in urban Manchester as having living,  on average, ten years less than their counterparts in rural Dorset (Dean, 2002). As this suggests, differences in life expectancy between socioeconomic groups in the UK have widened, which  is a factor attributed by experts to the faster rate of improvement for more affluent groups (Watt, 2001). Generally speaking, Dyer (1995) asserts that there is a north-south divide in  Britain. The average weekly income in a northern household was 291 pounds in 1993; while in the southeast, it was 424 (Dyer, 1995). However, socially patterned premature mortality is  the most significant form of social exclusion (Watt, 2001). However, this occurs after decades of living in adverse conditions. While the US may serve as a guide, the consequences of  having as much as a third of all adults coming from backgrounds of relative poverty is something to which the UK is having to learn how to cope (Watt, 2001).