With voters in the United Kingdom getting ready to go to the polls in just over two weeks’ time, child poverty campaigners are highlighting the importance of this most critical issue in the battle for...Read more
Childrenās health depends a great deal on where they live. Those who spend their early years in deprived neighbourhoods – measured using a combination of variables, including the percentage of residents with low income or...Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
Under the UKās two-child limit, families on benefit receive a payment for each of their first two children, but no more for any additional children.Read more
|Comment|author: The Conversation Global Perspectives
Over one billion people – including close to 500 million children – live in slums and informal settlements, mostly in cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In 2023, the UN-Habitat Assembly approved a historic...Read more
Children and adolescents are struggling to receive mental health support and treatment for range of reasons. It is even more difficult to get help when young people come from a background of poverty.Read more
Child poverty rates in Aotearoa New Zealand are ‘a sad indictment on the country’, with no real improvement in policy that could turn things aroundRead more
A decade of austerity-driven cuts to the UK welfare system means that half of all children from lone parent families are now living in ‘relative poverty’.Read more
Around two thirds of households with children have seen their incomes cut since the global pandemic hit two years ago, according to a new report.Read more
Almost two million children in England – one in five – are living in overcrowded, unaffordable or unsuitable homes, says the National Housing Federation in its annual āstate of the nationā report on Englandās housing...Read more
Poverty levels among children growing up in the north of England are getting increasingly worse compared to many of their peers across the country.Read more
A taskforce of some of the EU’s most prominent child rights organisations has thrown its weight behind the European Child Guarantee, aimed at making sure impoverished children have access to the most basic human rights.Read more
Children who live below the poverty line in Vancouver are one of the key focus areas of a new open data dashboard tracking the city’s progress against health and wellbeing indicators.Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more people using UK food banks for the first time, with families with children being the hardest hit, says a new report.
And the problem is set to get worse...Read more
National governments must give municipalities the financial and technical support needed to help protect vulnerable children living in cities worldwide from the far-reaching effects of COVID-19.Read more
India’s government has been told it must learn from this pandemic and create a robust, equitable and sustainable infrastructure for the urban poor – and especially its disease-prone children.
Unhygienic conditions and malnourishment presents a serious...Read more
