In the UK, to ensure these rights are met, government strategies currently in place cover a wide spectrum. These include financial support, employment, training, tackling inequalities in education and health, child care and neighbourhood renewal. People and organisations working on child poverty are also increasingly making links between the North and South in policy formulation. The context is different but the experiences that these children suffer are in many ways similar. As a child rights framework becomes increasingly adopted around the world so too does the concept of the globalisation of rights.
Organisations working on poverty in the South have much to offer to their counterparts in the North.
Being part of a global economy means that the world is becoming more and more inter-linked. What happens in one part of the world can now impact on what happens somewhere else as never before, and in such a world, ignoring child poverty becomes an increasingly risky option to take. This complex issue of child poverty in the North causes many of the developed countries' most difficult social problems. Yet the UK government's pledge is realistic. For it to succeed, individuals and organisations need to work towards securing the rights of children and young people to education, health and an adequate standard of living.