It is shameful and ridiculous that one of the most developed countries in the world not only has the levels of child and family poverty that we do, but also there is no coherent strategy for doing anything about it. Child poverty ruins childhoods and damages children's life chances. Children who experience poverty and hardship do worse at school, earn less as adults, suffer poorer health and are more likely to need help from a social worker.
Child poverty fell throughout the 2000s, but rates have risen again over the past decade, with the cost-of-living crisis driving progress into reverse. It's 2023 and the number of UK children in food poverty has nearly doubled to four million in a year. There is growing recognition that something needs to be done.
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