Since September 2020, ECP has been working with a group of children and young people who have shared their experiences of poverty and captured its impact on our Young people talk poverty page (more to follow in the coming months). To celebrate what other young people are doing around the UK to challenge child poverty, […]
Even before the pandemic, 4.3 million children were living in poverty, up 200,000 from the previous year – and up 500,000 over the past five years. North East England shows the greatest growth in child poverty over the past five years and has risen by a third, taking it from below the UK average to […]
Government’s own data shows high levels of child poverty across the UK, with no plan in place to reduce this Government data shows 3.9 million children living in poverty (after housing costs) between April 2020 and April 2021, that is 27% of all children This is a reduction of 400,000 from the previous year, this […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
