Poverty affects every aspect of a child’s life, from growing up in cramped, damp homes to going without a warm winter coat and being left behind on school trips.

It means childhoods filled with worry. Kids in poverty often do less well at school. Poverty damages their health and future life chances.

4.2 million children in the UK are growing up in poverty – that’s 9 in a classroom of 30.

It doesn’t have to be like this.

When the UK’s leaders get more money to families with the least, kids get their childhoods back.

Together as a community, we’re demanding real action from the UK’s leaders. They need to make a plan to tackle child poverty, starting with:

• Rolling out free school meals for all school pupils – so all children can enjoy lunch together

• Removing the two-child limit on benefits – because kids shouldn’t be punished for having siblings

• Scrapping the benefit cap – it hurts single mothers and their young children most

• Raising child benefit by £20 a week – to invest in children and give security

www.cpag.org.uk

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