The End Child Poverty coalition is deeply disappointed at today’s decision by the Government not to enable families to be “stronger, healthier and happier” by confirming an extension of the £20 lifeline uplift or to extend it to those on legacy benefits. Too many children in low income families across the UK entered the Covid […]
The Government has announced several new measures to alleviate poverty across the country this winter, including a new ‘Covid Winter Grant Scheme’ for local authorities to distibute to low income families. Anna Feuchtwang, Chief Executive of the National Children’s Bureau and Chair of the End Child Poverty Coalition, said: “Marcus Rashford deserves enormous credit for […]
More than half of children living in some constituencies are living in poverty after housing costs are factored in. Highest rates of child poverty in London and Birmingham Sharpest increases in child poverty in Midlands and northern cities. Local authority and constituency data available below. Child poverty has risen most sharply in parts of […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
