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Child Poverty in Britain is Causing 'Social Apartheid'

Categories: Articles:Social Justice | Published: 26/08/2013 | Views: 1684
Britain risks 'sleepwalking into a world where inequality becomes so entrenched that our children grow up in a state of social apartheid', according to a leading charity. In a damning report to be published next week, the National Children's Bureau finds that, in many respects, child poverty is now a bigger problem than during the 1960s, when it carried out a seminal study, Born to Fail?. The report compares aspects of children's lives today to data from the Born to Fail? cohort study of 11-year-olds, carried out in 1969. It finds that significantly more children are growing up in relative poverty today - 3.6 million compared with 2 million - and claims that these children suffer "devastating consequences throughout their lives". It adds: 'Today, although there have been some improvements, overall the situation appears to be no better, and in some respects has got worse.'  Guardian 24/08/13


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