Kids Are Going Hungry In Mouldy Homes – This Can't Be The Legacy Keir Starmer Wants

Right now in the UK, a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. This is expected to rise to 4.8 million by the end of this parliament.This sky-rocketing figure is driven largely by a policy known as the two-child limit to Universal Credit, which denies children with two or more older siblings additional government support.Almost 40,000 more children are affected by the policy than last year, according to new Department for Work and Pensions figures, meaning around 1.7 million children are impacted in total. At Save the Children, we hear from children going to school hungry, not being able to afford clothes or shoes that fit them, how they miss out on spending time with friends because they can’t afford the bus.Weekend activities are scarce, and school trips off the table. Children are growing up in overcrowded, damp and mouldy homes. Some don’t even have their own bed.And this poverty is not felt evenly – children under five, from ethnic minority communities, in single parent families, and in families where someone has a disability, are more likely to be hit by hardship.In particular, 49% of children in larger families live in poverty, denied the same support as their older siblings because there is a cruel two-child limit to Universal Credit. So far this government has introduced a range of measures to make life easier for families. The extension of free school meals to half a million more children, substantial investment in social and affordable housing, and the return of Sure Start through Best Start Family Hubs, will make a real difference.But due to the scale of poverty in the UK, these measures will not go far enough. Unfortunately, without scrapping the two-child limit in full, Keir Starmer risks overseeing the first Labour government to witness a significant rise in child poverty.It is true that this government faces tough economic choices. But this can’t be the legacy the Prime Minister and Chancellor want. Priya Edwards is senior policy and advocacy advisor at Save the Children UK.Related...Another Blow For Starmer As Labour's Welfare Reforms Draw Bleak Poverty Warning From UNChildren In England Living In 'Almost Dickensian Levels Of Poverty'Labour's Welfare Reforms Will Push 150,000 Into Poverty, Government Admits

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