child poverty
Osborne’s silence on child poverty speaks volumes
There is a telling silence in the chancellor’s autumn statement documents today - and that is the lack of any reference to child poverty, writes Alison Garnham.
Coalition Britain 2012: Children lose out as day trips break the bank for many families
Research by the Sutton Trust shows low income children are likely to do much less well in school if they are unable to access leisure activities.
JRF: You can’t rely on a single policy to combat poverty
The net weekly budget for a family of four, with children aged 3 and 7, has risen from £370 to £455 since 2008.
Hungry pupils? Well, the government did scrap plans for 500,000 free school meals
Today’s shocking stats from the Guardian are bad news for the government, who scrapped plans for free school meals for 500,000 children.
As the coalition attacks relative child poverty, here’s a list of mythbusting facts
As the DWP publishes its annual Households Below Average Income figures, coalition policies are cancelling out a decade’s progress in tackling child poverty.
IDS blames deficit on child poverty target
This morning on the Today Programme, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith blamed the deficit on “chasing” child poverty targets.