What are the effects of child poverty? | The Children's Society

Children Living in Poverty: Facts, Effects & Statistics

Our position on child poverty in Scotland

There can be no solutions to child poverty that do not address the high cost of housing. Take even a cursory glance at the government’s child poverty strategy published on Friday and you cannot avoid the direct links between deprivation in childhood and homelessness, the severe shortage of social housing and unaffordable private rents. The strategy builds on the abolition of the two-child limit in the Budget, which accounts for 450,000 of the 550,000 reduction in the number of children in povert

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