Child Poverty

Fathers are doing more housework and childcare, though still less than mothers
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Under-fives have 'strikingly different' lives to a generation ago - study

Coronavirus
Healthy Start Vouchers for low-income families with under-fours will rise to £4.25 a week from April 2021
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Government performs u-turn over free school meals in holidays

Child Poverty
The Healthy Start scheme entitles low-income families to vouchers to pay for fruit and vegetables, but has not risen in value since 2009
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Call to increase value of Healthy Start Vouchers

Child Poverty
According to Labour, 900,000 children living in Tier 2 and Tier 3 in England will lose access to free school meals
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Mounting pressure on Government to extend free school meals for October half term

Child Poverty
Marcus Rashford: ‘Whatever your feeling, opinion, or judgement, food poverty is never the child's fault'
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Marcus Rashford launches petition to end child food poverty

Child Poverty
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Attainment gap 'stagnant' for early years, says new research

Child Poverty
The UN reported in 2018 that the UK Government is ‘in a state of denial’ on child poverty
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Child poverty - Slipping through the net

Analysis
Nurseries and childminders did not receive any extra financial support in the summer statement, despite sector fears that one in four settings could close
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Summer statement: Government 'without a plan' for the childcare sector and struggling families

Child Poverty
Families that have lost their jobs or cannot work because of coronavirus are struggling to put food on the table
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Coronavirus: Families ‘teetering on the brink’ a month into lockdown

Coronavirus
Health visitors say that workforce numbers in some parts of the UK have been cut by up to 70%
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Coronavirus 'taking key NHS staff away from vulnerable children'

Health
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Coronavirus: Give parents paid leave for looking after children

Child Poverty
People do not have enough money to lead a healthy life, with a large number resorting to food banks, the report says
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Austerity 'highly likely' to have caused 'shocking' damage to nation's health

Families
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Number of children in poverty up by 400,000 in last five years

Child Poverty
Pembury House Nursery School in Haringey chose to spend part of its EYPP funding on art projects to develop sustained shared thinking (2016)
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EYPP funding slashed by 40 per cent, report reveals

Management
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Childcare practitioners 'living in poverty' - exclusive survey

Funding
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Teaching assistants buying school uniforms for 'cash-strapped' families

Families

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