The growing disease of child poverty in the UK and Labour's big lever they can pull to halt it

No early years strategy is credible unless it tackles child poverty head-on.

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When Labour swept into office it promised to tear down the barriers that hold children back, champion opportunity, tackle entrenched disadvantage, and fix Britain’s fractured early years system.

“The last Labour government lifted over half a million children and over a million pensioners out of poverty,” Keir Starmer’s 2024 mani…