What Does This Mean for Children at School? Today, 5th June 2025, the government have announced they will expand Free School Meal entitlement to all children whose families receive Universal Credit. This is welcome news, and a first step towards much needed investment to lift children out of poverty. But what does this mean for […]
Today the End Child Poverty Coalition published ‘8 Tests’ that it wants the government to meet, when the Tackling Child Poverty Strategy is launched in Spring 2025. Here a Youth Ambassador – aged 17 reflects on what it would mean to her, and other young people growing up in poverty if these tests were met. […]
Written by Darcy, aged 17 from Kent who is an End Child Poverty Youth Ambassador. Period poverty isn’t spoken about enough but it affects 3 in 10 girls in the UK. For these girls, managing their period is a huge challenge, not just because of the lack of access to products but also due to […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
