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Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?

By Regina Murphy Keith, Senior Lecturer in Food, Nutrition and Public Health, University of Westminster

The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece.

What’s sobering is how desperately the UK needs a strategy to address child poverty. At the end of 2024, four and a half million children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, meaning that they live in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income.

And 18%…

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