TORY ministers “do not have a plan” to tackle child poverty, a group of cross-party MPs warned today.

A report from the Commons work and pensions committee called for a cross-government strategy to help millions of young people after a “lack of clear leadership and focus” had seen the problem fester. 

Ministers must end their focus on only absolute poverty — less than 60 per cent of the median income for 2010/11, adjusted for inflation — and broaden deprivation measures to include relative poverty, it stressed.