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The fourth emergency service: How teachers became the last line of defence
Exclusive: Schools are increasingly compensating for rising levels of poverty experienced by children at home, according to stark new findings shared…
Mar 28
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Natalie Morris
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No coats, no breakfast – the realities of child poverty in schools
The Lead in Conversation: Experts and former teachers discuss the "harrowing" findings of a new fuel poverty investigation.
Mar 26
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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Guaranteeing the essentials: How Britain could end crisis-level poverty
With millions struggling to afford food, utilities and essentials, a protected minimum floor for benefits could provide a lifeline and reduce reliance…
Feb 14
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Kevin Gopal
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The Lead
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This is how we fix Universal Credit
The basic rate of benefit support falls woefully short – Iain Porter, senior policy advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explains what needs to…
Feb 12
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The Lead
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Child poverty is racialised – we won't end the crisis until this is acknowledged
At the National Energy Action conference, fuel poverty’s human cost was clear. Those shaping policy must confront who is being hit hardest.
Feb 12
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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Parents aren’t failing their children: the state is failing parents
Welsh baby bundles are welcome – but they won’t rebuild the village parents desperately need.
Feb 5
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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How to help children in poverty this Christmas
From buying presents to funding local lifelines, here are six ways you can support children in poverty during the festive period
Dec 20, 2025
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Ella Glover
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The Lead Untangles: Does the new Child Poverty Strategy go far enough?
Many of the new policies are welcome – but critics say the plans lack ambition.
Dec 11, 2025
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Ella Glover
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The Lead
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Labour has opened the door to ending child poverty, now they must walk through it
The announcement of the much-delayed child poverty strategy is welcome but four million children will still remain in poverty when it ends in 2029
Dec 5, 2025
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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The Lead's budget verdict: technocratic tweaks to a broken system
Lifting the two-child benefit cap is welcome, but Rachel Reeves' tax and spend plans fall far short of the financial shake up this country needs
Nov 26, 2025
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Zoe Grunewald
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The Lead
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The Lead in Conversation: "Kids are in poverty because adults are in poverty"
Former editor of The Big Issue in the north discusses the shameful crisis of child poverty and the regional disparities that are being driven by…
Nov 23, 2025
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Natalie Morris
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The Lead
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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…
Nov 15, 2025
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Kevin Gopal
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