80% of school staff say providing universal free school meals to all school children would reduce child poverty in their school, according to a survey carried out by the Education Anti-Poverty Coalition.
80% of school staff say providing universal free school meals to all school children would reduce child poverty in their school, according to a survey carried out by the Education Anti-Poverty Coalition.
48% of children in BAME families are growing up in poverty as are 44% of children in lone-parent families.
Dropping the child poverty target would mean accepting a level of poverty much higher than almost all countries of comparable wealth.
Kate Bell and Jason Strelitz look at the lessons that can be learnt from Labour's years on the tackling of child poverty.