CHILDREN’S rights campaigners united today in condemning the Welsh government’s latest child poverty strategy.

The strategy was introduced by Social Justice Minister Jane Hutt, who told the Senedd that it has five objectives including the creation of pathways out of poverty and reducing costs for families and maximising their incomes.

Children’s Commissioner for Wales Rocio Cifuentes co-ordinated the statement by 14 organisations, which said that they had seen first-hand the devastating effect living in poverty has on children in Wales.