Poverty policy lacks input from children

7 June 2011 1 min read Joe Lepper Early Years Children's Services Child poverty

Save the Children has called on the government to ensure it involves children and young people more in efforts to end child poverty.

In its report Telling It Like It Is, the charity has documented a raft of real-life experiences from children living in poverty.

Such views are important to help ministers understand the harsh realities children in poverty have to endure.

The report states: "These children are experts on their own lives and understand what it means to be poor. Yet too often their voices are left out of debates and discussions about what the government should do to end child poverty."

The children and young people who took part are involved in Save the Children’s UK projects and are also featured in a documentary called Poor Kids, screened on BBC One tonight (7 June).

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