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Millions of children in poverty

30/09/2008

98% of children in some areas are in families classed as ‘struggling’, according to the Campaign to End Child Poverty – a total of 5.5 million across the UK.

“There are currently 3,900,000 children in the UK that are classed as actually living in poverty,” said Campaign director Hilary Fisher, according to the BBC.

A coalition of well over 120 organisations including Barnado’s, Save the Children and the NSPCC, the Campaign classes households as being in poverty if they live on less than £10 per person per day.

“As the Campaign points out,” said a spokesperson for debt consolidation experts Debt Advisers Direct, “poverty has a profound effect on every aspect of a child’s life.

“At Debt Advisers Direct, we wholeheartedly support the Government’s promise to halve child poverty by 2010 – and end it by 2020.”

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