‘Instead of enjoying the birth of our baby, we have dealt with hardship and having to scrape together for meals. Borrowing money from family for milk and nappies and ending ourselves in a stressful amount of debt.’ A parent on the impact of the two child limit. Today End Child Poverty is one of more […]
Child poverty is becoming the ‘new normal’ in parts of Britain as fastest rises in poverty hit the poorest areas In some constituencies more than half of children are growing up in poverty Impoverished areas see the greatest rises in child poverty Child poverty highest in big cities, particularly London, Birmingham and Greater Manchester 500k […]
Work not enough to stop children being trapped in poverty as number of children in severe poverty rises 70% of children in poverty come from a working household Of the 4.1 million children in poverty, those in severe poverty rises to 2.8 million National and regional data published by Government. More children in the […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
