In its report, the cross-party committee claims that some of the Government’s policy developments have worked against the best interests of children, leaving them experiencing the ‘hard-edge of austerity’, with mounting threats to their basic human rights.
It says that the cumulative impact of cuts to services, the cost of living crisis, and changes to the welfare system, means some children in England are not having their basic needs for shelter and food met, and can’t access the services which are supposed to support families.
This is despite the Government’s commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which states that ‘the best interests of children must be a primary concern in making decisions that affect them’.
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