Children and benefits
Global Child Benefits Tracker Save the Children, ILO and UNICEF have developed an online platform to monitor children’s access to benefits worldwide. It includes reports and data on child poverty with country files on child poverty and current social protection policies and programmes. It includes information on funding levels. Full methodology is provided on the website.
Child poverty in the UK
Find out levels of child poverty in the UK in the latest annual Local child poverty rates, After Housing Costs report compiled by the End Child Poverty Coalition, together with the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University. It covers constituencies and London boroughs. Methodology provided on the website.
Closing the attainment gap
The Higher Education Policy Institute has been looking at the effect of the Covid pandemic on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. Read about it in the blog post by Gwen Morris.
Too poor to afford school holidays?
This week the Trussell Trust published research that during school holidays more children receive and rely on food bank emergency supplies. They quote the statistics that 67,506 three day emergency food supplies were provided for children by The Trussell Trust’s foodbank network in July and August 2016 compared to 63,094 in May and June 2016. […]
UK Child Poverty
Save the children Fund report on UK Child Poverty The new report A Fair start for every child: Why we must act now to tackle child poverty in the UK forecasts shocking rates of poverty amongst families by 2020. It looks at the main causes of this and considers the impact on children’s lives. Other good […]
Child Poverty
Through young eyes – three million children are living in poverty in the UK according to the Children’s Commission on Poverty survey published by the Children’s Society Also recently published: The Children’s Commissioner’s analysis of disabled children’s experiences of living in low income families. This study consisted of interviews with 79 young disabled people and […]
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