CHILD POVERTY CAMPAIGNERS CALL ON CORBYN TO MAKE CHILD POVERTY TOP PRIORITY For immediate release The End Child Poverty coalition is calling on the Labour Party to make tackling child poverty a key pillar of its vision for a more equal society. Sam Royston, Chair of End Child Poverty said ‘in his speech to conference […]
For immediate release: Wednesday 21st June 2017 End Child Poverty has today welcomed the Government’s commitment to ensuring fairer markets for consumers, and the absence of plans to scrap universal free school meals for infants, but expressed dismay that the legislative programme fails to address rising child poverty. There are currently over 4 million children […]
The Households Below Average Income figures for 2015/6 released today show that child poverty now stands at the highest level since 2009/10, with 4 million children in the UK now living in relative poverty. The figures also show that in-work poverty continues to rise, and now stands at 67 percent. Regional child poverty rates are […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
