‘Mouldy or full of rats’: Children in England face almost-Dickensian levels of poverty
In a new report, the Child Commissioner warned that some young people in the UK experienced “almost at a level of poverty in poverty” because some families have emerged in a new report.
The black mold in a bedroom and the mice in a kitchen, while the government was preparing to publish a child poverty strategy in autumn, it was among the examples of young people to examine the commission members.
The latest official estimates argue that 4.45 million children living in poverty in England until March 2024 were records.
While some felt a sense of shame on their situation, Dame Rachel de Souza said that it was generally society and decision -makers who should be ashamed of the fact that children do not have enough money ”.
Numerous campaign groups, the government’s new strategy should include the commitment to eliminate the limit of two children’s benefit.
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.
Organizations working in the sector argue that 109 children throughout the UK are drawn to poverty by policy every day and that 350,000 children will be removed from poverty immediately.
However, the comments made by Bridget Phillipson at the weekend, expressed concerns that policy may not be eliminated in the midst of financial pressures after the U -return on welfare reforms.
Phillipson said that after the irrigation of welfare reforms, spending decisions were taken “more”.
Ms. Phillipson, who was suppressed whether the chance of the benefit cover is now thinner, said in a statement with the BBC on Sunday with Laura Kuensberg: “Decisions taken last week make decisions more difficult.
“But all of this will look at it in terms of ways of lifting children from poverty collectively.”
The cost of scrapping policy varies from approximately £ 2.6 billion to £ at the end of this parliament (2029/30) at the end of this parliament.
Dame Rachel, who was assigned to fulfill its report to feed the government’s work in the region, said, “If there is no quick solution to end the child poverty”, and that any child poverty strategy should be based on the basis of scrapping the two children’s boundaries ”.
He added that there is a need for a new approach that is needed to solve these problems by just listening to children and acting in response ”.
The Commissioner said that he has seen a change in the interpretations of children in recent years and traditionally seen as “adult” concerns, now he is felt by the children who see their parents’ concerns and struggles: the hours they work, the ability to put food on the tables they live in. ”
“Children, some shared their challenging challenging accounts at Dickensian poverty levels.
“They do not speak as an abstract concept about ‘poverty’, but they do not mention not to have things that most people do not have the basic things: ‘luxury’ foods, such as bacon, such as bacon, is a safe house to travel for hours and travel to school for hours.”
While proud of the government to pride some positive steps for families to get more money in their pockets ,, he called for bir brave, practical measures that break the connection between a child’s past and opportunities ”.
Between January and March this year, the commissioner’s report, based on the experiences of 128 children throughout the country, has recorded a number of concerns such as quality, healthy food and cramped and bad conditions.
Dame Rachel made a commitment in the so -called “triple lock, to increase all the benefits of children, as well as calling the benefit of the benefit limit with two children. Free bus ride and initiatives, including better buses, including better buses, including better schools, including the journey and better, better schools, including better schools.
A government spokesman said: ız We are determined to reduce child poverty. Reform we have announced a new £ 1 billion package, including financing to ensure that the poorest children are not hungry outside the period.
“This increases the national minimum wage by investing £ 39 billion in social and affordable houses, as well as the expansion of free breakfast clubs, and supports 700,000 of the poorest families by bringing a fair reimbursement rate about universal loan deductions.
“As a part of our change plan, the child poverty duty force will publish an ambitious strategy later in this year to enable us to offer full -financial measures that deals with the structural and main reasons for child poverty throughout the country.”
