Child poverty concerns in NW

from the Southport Visiter

by Gary Stewart, Ormskirk Advertiser


A REPORT by Save the Children suggests that 1 in 10 children in the North West are living in severe poverty.

For a couple with a child that means living on average of £7,000 a year. That’s just £19 per day to cover electricity and gas, phones, other bills, food, clothes, washing, transport, health needs as well as activities for children and all other essential items.

Kate Bratt Farrar, spokesperson for Save the Children, said: “We can’t let these children slip below the radar. They’re the children who are hardest to reach, need the most help and the greatest investment to lift them out of poverty.”