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Child poverty: empirical and theoretical resources
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News coverage on child poverty
- Charities and academics back poverty reduction unit: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy841ke32l0o
- School leaders call on ministers to scrap ‘poverty-producing’ two-child benefit cap: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/school-leaders-call-on-ministers-to-scrap-poverty-producing-two-child-benefit-cap/ar-AA1pFJEn
- PM sets up taskforce for 4m UK children in poverty: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn081lyqw44o
- Gordon Brown on UK child povery level: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/15/gordon-brown-child-poverty-uk-november-budget
Other resources:
- Podcast — The We Society, by the Academy of Social Sciences in association with the Nuffield Foundation and Leverhulme Trust: https://podfollow.com/the-we-society/view
- Report: Education in England: Annual Report 2020 – Education Policy Institute.
- Report– Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025: https://ophi.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-10/GMPI_2025_Overlapping.pdf
- Report — UNICEF: Ending Child Poverty 2025: https://www.unicef.org/media/176436/file/SOWC-2025-full-report-EN.pdf
- Child Poverty: Statistics, Causes and the UK’s Policy Response: https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/child-poverty-statistics-causes-and-the-uks-policy-response/ – House of Lords Library.


