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What poverty means, is young people who are …doing very well in school,..leave at 16 because the family needs the wages.
Participant at Poverty Hearing
Child Poverty and Education, End Child Poverty 2007
Participant at Poverty Hearing
Child Poverty and Education, End Child Poverty 2007
Through Thick And Thin
Through Thick And Thin
Through Thick and Thin: Tackling Child Poverty in Hard Times
A staggering two million British children now have no parent in work and the number of children in families having to survive on benefits has jumped by 170,000 in just twelve months.
Through Thick and Thin: Tackling Child Poverty in Hard Times, written by leading social policy researcher Donald Hirsch, analyses the impact of the recession on levels of child poverty in the UK and provides strong evidence for the government to implement End Child Poverty’s “Recession Recovery Package”.
To download a copy of the report please follow this link.