Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’ | Child benefits

Children in the UK live in the “almost Dickensian poverty levels ,, because the child’s commissioner insists that two children should be scrapped.

Young people, in a series of examples in a report about the “difficulty crisis önemli that dragged the country, said they did not experience enough water to take a shower, rats biting from their walls and moldy bedrooms.

Dame Rachel de Souza said that since they became a children’s commissioner four years ago, they noticed a significant change when they talked about the lives of young people and “traditionally ‘adult’ concerns are now eagerly felt by children.”

“Children, some shared their challenging challenging accounts at the levels of poverty, almost at Dickensian poverty levels.” “As an abstract concept, they do not speak about ‘poverty’, but they do not mention not to have things that most people think of basic things: a safe house that is moldy or full or without mice, a big bed to bend, ‘luxury’ foods such as bacon, heating in the bathroom, privacy, traveling to school and traveling for hours.”

In the report, “deeply, how often these inadequate situations they accept or have to be entitled to have a righteousness, are deeply worried that they have low expectations”.

In one of the richest societies in the world ”, ruling people should be ashamed that they should grow by knowing that children are determined according to their financial conditions”.

According to the latest figures, 4.5 million children in England lived in poverty until 2024. Labour’s flagship children’s poverty strategy was postponed at least until autumn, as it faced increasing pressure to end two children’s limits on universal loan.

On Sunday, the Minister of Education said that the government’s last U -turn on welfare changes would make it difficult to implement the policy and contribute to concerns that it may not be added to the strategy.

Bridget Phillipson said in a statement with the BBC’s Laura Kuensberg, “last week’s decisions are taking decisions and challenging future decisions even more,” he said.

The border, which came into force under conservatives in April 2017, restricts the child tax loan and universal loan to the first two children in most households. The Child Poverty Action Group estimates that 109 children are drawn from the border to poverty every day.

The Institute of Financial Research estimated the government that the subtraction of policy would cost the government approximately £ 3.4 billion per year and will remove 500,000 children out of relative poverty.

De Souza said, olur There was no rapid correction in the ending child poverty ,, but “any child poverty strategy was clearly based on the basis of scrapping two children’s limits”.

The commissioner’s report, based on the experiences of 128 children between the ages of six and 18 ages between January and March this year, has recorded a number of concerns such as quality, lack of access to healthy foods and living in cramped and bad conditions.

De Souza also called for a “triple lock ve about the benefits of children to ensure that they continue at increasing prices.

Paul Whiteman, the Secretary General of the School Leaders Association, responded to the report, said: “Food banks and hot centers are running, providing food vouchers and even using laundry, but this should not be necessary and that schools cannot address all the underlying causes of child poverty”.

He said his commissioner supports the call for automatically for divided actions and free meals.

For comments, the Ministry of Labor and Pension was contacted.