The challenges facing The Northern Ireland Assembly in meeting its target of ending child poverty.

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"A recent report for OFMDFM (2008) highlighted the levels of fuel poverty faced by lone
parents, revealing that lone parents on average spent 56 per cent of their income on fuel compared with 26 per cent in Britain (Hillyard and Patsios, 2009)."

Fragmented and separated families is leading to wide spread child poverty in N.Ireland, the removal of good loving fathers through Secret Family Dip Loc Courts is attributing to child poverty. The lack of childcare is highlighted in this report and one remedy is to stop socially excluding fathers and the child's extended family from the child. When a father is removed from a child's life, then to is half of that's child's family who could aid and support in childcare.

Social engineering since the implementation of the Children's Order 1995 has created and attributed to child poverty in N.Ireland and must be reversed by allowing children the right to enjoy the freedom and liberty of residence with both its parents.