
Campaign to End Child Poverty director Hilary Fisher said: “From the day they are born, children’s health and very survival are threatened by family poverty.
“Children in the poorest UK families are at least twice as likely to die unexpectedly before their first birthdays than children in slightly better off families.
“This is a huge injustice for the 3.9 million disadvantaged children living in one of the richest nations in the world.
“The Government needs to step up to the mark and do more to end what is one of society’s greatest and most outrageous inequalities.”