The North is watching and waiting for Rachel Reeves to act on child poverty

Former Editor of the Big Issue North, Kevin Gopal, looks at how families in the North of England are in dire need of help - and why the child poverty strategy must right many years of wrongs

End Child Poverty campaigners outside Westminster to highlight rising child poverty figures Pic: End Child Poverty

Even with less than two weeks before the expected launch of the child poverty strategy, there is a need to maintain pressure on the government if it’s to improve the lives of nearly a million poor young people in the North, an expert has war…