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End Child Poverty

Every number is a life: The child poverty crisis in stats
Millions of children in the UK are going without basic essentials – how we count them matters. Claire Miller drills into the numbers behind child…
Nov 8 • 
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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.
Oct 21 • 
Natalie Morris
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Child poverty is a failure of the state and the economy it claims to safeguard
The government insists we cannot afford to lift children out of poverty, while those same children pay the price for political caution.
Oct 14 • 
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Zoe Grunewald
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