These statistics are deeply concerning.

🍽️ Increased poverty means more children are too hungry to learn. And more hungry children means access to breakfast is needed more than ever.

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#ChildPoverty #NoChildTooHungryToLearn #HBAI

🚨REACTION to the Government’s Households Below Average Income statistics.

Full reaction ➡️https://oxfam.org.uk/mc/m3acfv/
#HBAI

The latest Household Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics show that poverty continues to affect millions of children in the UK, with 4.5 million affected by poverty during 2023-2024, an increase of 100,00 on the year before. These figures should shame us all, and must be examined alongside the UK Government’s proposals to take £4.8 billion in social security support from some of the most vulnerable, and indeed poorest, among us. The Government’s own Impact Assessment suggests that 50,000 more children will be pulled into relative poverty as a direct result of these changes. But another way is possible. For the past five years, almost 200 parents and carers living on a low-income from all four nations of the UK have been working alongside researchers at the University of York and Child Poverty Action Group to document everyday life in poverty and to push for change. The project started life as Covid Realities in the pandemic and became Changing Realities in a cost-of-living crisis that has never gone away. In our work together, we have contributed real-time evidence to policymakers, challenged harmful media narratives, and developed co-produced recommendations for change.

New report from @changingrealities.bsky.social funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org draws on #HBAI figures released today

It sets out why the need for action is urgent & proposes an effective approach to tackling child poverty:

changingrealities.org/writings/cut...

If the absolute poverty line rose with CPI instead of RPI, poverty rate would now be 16% not 17% (gap to grow bigger in future). #hbai