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 […]
PM’s use of child poverty statistics ‘selective, inaccurate and misleading’ The End Child Poverty coalition’s complaint about the misleading use of child poverty statistics on three separate occasions by the PM[1] has been scrutinised by the Statistics Authority’s Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and they have written to End Child Poverty stating they reach […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
