In my constituency, 79% are affected. They are not alone. The government cannot ignore its responsibilities any longer

More than 40 percent of children in the United Kingdom are living in poverty, according to the latest research by the Campaign to End Child Poverty reports Peter Reydt.

Life for children in Britain is incredibly difficult, writes Richard Seymour, caught as they are between increasing poverty and violent abuse on the one hand and relentless demonisation and authoritarian “clamp downs” on the other.

John McDonnell on New Labour’s failure to adequately deal with child poverty, a failure the new budget will do little to address.

The ICWA on the grinding poverty that is a daily reality for thousands of families in Britain, which boasts one of the highest rates of child poverty in the industrialised world.