UK Child Poverty set to soar as spending cuts bite

RT

Broken promises for children. UNICEF warns that coalition cuts will lead to return to child poverty levels of two decades ago.

The report states that levels of ‘relative’ and ‘absolute’ child poverty in the UK are expected to reach 24% and 23% of children respectively by 2020 – compared to the target figures of 10% and 5% set by the previous labor government.

Although currently thought to be stable, the child poverty [...]