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Welsh government's child poverty strategy fails to ‘match the gravity of the situation,’ campaigners say
Wales's First minister Mark Drakeford serves lunches with the school lunch staff during a visit to Ysgol Y Preseli in Pembrokeshire, to begin the roll-out of universal free school meals for primary school children, September 7, 2022

POVERTY campaigners in Wales made a stinging attack on the devolved government’s child poverty strategy today.

The Bevan Foundation and the Children’s Commissioner for Wales both criticised the Welsh government’s draft child poverty strategy, which is currently out for consultation.

Children’s Commissioner Rocio Cifuentes said: “The Welsh government must comprehensively revise their draft strategy. 

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