UK Cuts to child tax credit result in more UK children thrown into poverty

15 Jan 2012 | child poverty

‘Ekklesia’ reports that shocking statistics provided by the End Child Poverty campaign (ECP) show that nearly 60 per cent of children live in poverty. On average throughout the UK, one in five (20.9 per cent) children are classified as below the poverty line. In some areas of large cities, this rises to over half. The ECP data has been compiled using ‘National Indicator 116’, an official indicator of child poverty at local level. ECP campaign executive director Alison Garnham claimed, that Britain continues to be socially segregated with the “life chances of millions of children damaged by poverty and inequality’’.

Source : Ekklesia