The colour of poverty: Black and brown children are at the sharp end of the crisis

Policies to tackle child poverty that don’t acknowledge the impact of race are simply not going to cut it.

Half of children in Bangladeshi and Black African households experience very deep poverty in at least one year out of four. Pic: Unsplash

We are in the grip of a shameful crisis that has been allowed to impact society’s most vulnerable for far too long. In the year to April 2024, 4.5 million children were in poverty, an increase of 100,000 from the previ…