Responding to the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy, Dr Kerris Cooper, Senior Researcher (Early Years and Inequalities) at the Education Policy Institute, said:
“Efforts to tackle the disadvantage gap in education will only be successful within a wider effort to address the causes and effects of poverty. It is extremely positive that the Child Poverty Strategy recognises and begins to tackle the appalling numbers of children living in insecure temporary accommodation. Along with the lifting of the two-child limit, this directly addresses some of the unacceptable conditions children have experienced over the past decade. Other concrete changes, including moves to make baby formula less unaffordable, also offer real improvements to families’ material conditions. This is especially important as we know that families with the youngest children face the highest risk of food insecurity.”
