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Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?

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par 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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