Children going hungry every day should be a scandal
No parent should be in a position of making spending choices that include whether or not they can afford to feed their child, says ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
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CHILD poverty in Britain is not new. Children going hungry in Britain is not new.
A rich and supposedly civilised country such as ours should treat this as an emergency, an outrage and a priority to be addressed.
But instead child poverty has been rising steadily since 2012 and, according to the Child Poverty Action Group, it is predicted that by 2023-4, whether or not the £20 uplift in universal credit and working tax credit is kept, the number of children living in poverty (after housing costs) will be the highest since records began (4.4 million with the uplift kept, 4.7m without).
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