Mandatory remote teaching could reduce inequality during the pandemic – but delivering it will be difficult
The lives of millions of parents and children were turned upside down when COVID-19 forced school lockdowns in April 2020. With a new national lockdown having begun in England on January 4 2021, many parents...Read more
Australia is ‘world leader’ in supporting children through COVID
Child poverty is expected to remain above pre-COVID levels for at least five years in high-income countries globally, a likely increase on the one in six Australian children living below the poverty line.Read more
‘Appalling’ rise in destitution among children in UK cities
More than half a million children in the UK are experiencing ‘extreme hardship’ at home, a new study has found.Read more
Free school meals: the lifelong impact of childhood food poverty
The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on household food security in the UK. Five million families have encountered food insecurity, and 200,000 children are missing meals every day.Read more
UNICEF: 350 million children worldwide in poverty – and COVID has made things worse
An estimated 1 in 6 children – or 356 million globally – lived in extreme poverty before the pandemic, and this is set to worsen significantly, according to a new report.Read more
COVID-19 is predicted to make child poverty worse. Should New Zealand’s next government make temporary safety nets permanent?
Despite the 2017 Labour-led government taking power with a mandate to fight Aotearoa New Zealand’s abysmally high child poverty rate, only incremental progress has been made. The percentage of children living in poor households dropped only...Read more
‘Bleak winter’ ahead for many children in UK cities
The knock-on effects of COVID-19 mean many children in Britain’s inner-cities face ‘the bleakest of winters’, with thousands of families set to be plunged into financial crisis.Read more
EU Summit: leaders urged to ‘rescue’ children from poverty
European Union leaders have been told they must initiate a rescue plan now to help pull vulnerable children out of poverty. The call has come from hundreds of organisations and individuals acting under the umbrella of...Read more
Lockdowns threaten childrens’ nutrition: why extra care is needed
Data from two years ago shows that close to 60 per cent of children in South Africa lived below the poverty line, while a third were below the food poverty line. Statistics also show that...Read more
New Irish government ‘must prioritise child poverty’
Child and family homelessness in Ireland must be the number one priority for the next Government, says the country’s Children’s Rights Alliance. That’s the overriding message from the organisation’s Report Card 2020, its annual report –...Read more
Italy must invest or face ‘irreversible process of child impoverishment’
Italy must act and put an end to child poverty or face ‘an irreversible process of impoverishment’. That was the stark message from Elena Bonetti, the country’s minister for Equal Opportunities and Family, to the Alliance...Read more
A quarter of all families with children in Spain live in poverty
Save The Children says more than a quarter of all families with children in Spain are living in poverty, with most of them in three-generation households. The Families at Risk report is based on a detailed...Read more
Child poverty in The Netherlands unchanged in 2018
Around 264,000 youngsters were living in ‘poverty’ in The Netherlands last year – meaning the rate has stabilised – according to latest government figures. And while that figure is largely unchanged from 2017, the number of...Read more
Social deprivation linked to changes in eating style in early childhood
Childhood obesity rates are high in the UK, but not all children are affected equally – a family’s wealth makes a big difference to a child’s risk. Rates of overweight and obesity among children are...Read more