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Two years ago, I published a blog called Goodbye Childcare, Hello Freedom which charted the challenges I faced as single parent organising childcare in the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s.

Westminster leader Philippa Roe admitted that the re-jigged initiative risks leaving boroughs unable to provide homes for people who need them.

Genesis Housing Association has revealed it will now build only for shared ownership.

Forget income as the main child poverty measure, says Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary.

Richard Blakeway, the deputy mayor for housing, said a ‘broad’ assessment by City Hall suggested that between 3,000 and 4,500 London council homes would be sold off each year through the policy.

Owen Jones predicted: “The long-term trajectory on inequality of income is set to get a lot worse.

‘We will work to eliminate child poverty”

The £23,000 benefit cap, to be announced by the chancellor in the emergency budget on July 8, which shows nearly 600 households in the borough would be affected, on top of of the 250 already affected by the current cap.

There are more poor children in London than in Scotland and Wales combined.

While today’s figures tell us there has not been a statistically significant decrease in child poverty levels, they also make it pretty clear that the government is significantly off track when it comes to fulfilling its commitment to end child poverty by 2020.