CYP Now - EU funding for child poverty going unspent, peers warn

The UK risks wasting more than a million pounds of European funding intended to tackle child poverty and homelessness unless urgent action is taken by the government, a group of peers has warned.

A letter from the EU Home Affairs sub-committee to Victoria Atkins, minister for crime, safeguarding and vulnerability, says nearly £550,000 has already been "wasted" from the Fund For European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) allocation to the UK.

It warns a similar amount could be lost again unless the government draws up a funding programme before the end of the year.

FEAD addresses the "worst forms of poverty" in European Union member countries such as food deprivation, child poverty and homelessness.

More than £3.5m was allocated to the UK for 2014 to 2020 to be used in community projects to tackle these issues.

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