Even before the pandemic, 4.3 million children were living in poverty, up 200,000 from the previous year – and up 500,000 over the past five years. North East England shows the greatest growth in child poverty over the past five years and has risen by a third, taking it from below the UK average to […]
The End Child Poverty coalition has today issued a statement on the decision by the Chancellor to extend the £20 increase to Universal Credit for just six months. This offers children in poverty a small lifeline but the coalition is warning that, given the extent of the child poverty crisis before the pandemic, it will […]
The End Child Poverty coalition has joined with other organisations across the children’s sector to ask the Chancellor to put children and child poverty at the heart of the Spring Budget. Read the letter in full
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
