Around 400,000 children amongst 1M now using foodbanks
The number of people using foodbanks has reached a record one million after an increase in workers on low pay having to seek emergency help for food, new figures have
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Tag: Child Poverty
Teachers survey reports children blighted and degraded by poverty
Children are turning up to school sick because their parents cannot afford to take time off to care for them, teachers have claimed. School staff are also still seeing youngsters
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Disadvantaged children should get larger share of childcare budget
The next government should review priorities for childcare and early education in England to ensure a greater share of the £6.4 billion annual budget is spent on children from disadvantaged
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£3bn child support payments ‘uncollectable’
Almost £3 billion in unpaid child support may never be recovered, according to official accounts. The money is owed by absent parents who have been referred to the Child Support
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Charities express child poverty fear over Osborne welfare freeze
Charities expressed concern that the Chancellor has decided to freeze Universal Credit work allowances as part of a raft of welfare announcements. George Osborne said the allowance will be maintained
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Report: Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission 2014 Report
The second annual State of the Nation Report which is published and laid before Parliament from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (SMCP), shows that Britain is on the
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New university study shows wide variation in child poverty
Research undertaken by Loughborough University for The Campaign to End Child Poverty published today shows big variations in child poverty across the UK. The new figures, complied by the University’s
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