The issue of child poverty is the single biggest challenge of our time and it is one we are failing – currently 2.3 million UK children are considered to be living in poverty.
This statement is at odds with figures showing that last year 300,000 children were lifted out of poverty. However, this happened not because of any government policy or real change in these children’s lives, but purely because of a drop in UK income levels.
This is because poverty is currently defined on relative household income and whether it is more or less than 60 per cent of the UK median.
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