The government is “significantly off track" with its pledge to end child poverty in the UK by 2020 and should “re-examine" its approach, campaigners have said.
The latest figures on child poverty, published last week in the Households Below Average Income Report, show that 2.3 million children are living in poverty.
However, this figure rises to 3.7 million children – which is 27 per cent of all children in the country – after housing costs are deducted from family incomes.
Reacting to the figures this week, teachers warned once again of the impact that poverty has on education, but said that schools cannot overcome the challenges alone.
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