Investing in a child’s early years must be a priority if poverty is to be tackled effectively, says influential children’s rights champion Eurochild, which is leading a new awareness campaign.Read more
Growing up in a poor or disadvantaged neighbourhood can affect the way adolescents’ brains function, according to our new research. It can alter the communication between brain regions involved in planning, goal-setting and self-reflection.Read more
Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that would have provided many families with children a monthly stipend? It may surprise you that it came in 1969 from Richard Nixon,...Read more
An agreement has been reached on the European Union Social Fund which guarantees investment by countries to help children where many are at a high risk of poverty.Read more
Children are the future, so they say. Well, the future is looking bleak. The COVID-19 pandemic has already had a devastating impact on children: disrupting schooling, affecting well-being, social contact and even nutrition. As more...Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
