3.5m Children Predicted to be in Poverty by 2020
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Published: 10/06/2014 |
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The level of child poverty in Britain is "a stain on our national conscience", leading charities have said as a Government adviser warns today that its reforms are failing to tackle the problem. While the economy may be improving and home-owners are benefiting from rising prices, a shocking report published today by the nation's social mobility tsar predicts that Britain will have 3.5 million children living in poverty by 2020. (Emily Dugan, Independent, 09/06/14)
In further evidence of the hardship faced by families across the country, a separate study to be published today shows that food charities provided more than 20 million meals last year to people in the UK who could not afford to feed themselves. The figure, from Oxfam, Church Action on Poverty and the Trussell Trust, represents a 54 per cent increase on the previous year. Read more
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