Poverty is the single greatest threat to the wellbeing of children and families.
It can affect every area of a child's development - social, educational and personal.
Our child poverty campaigns
We believe it is outrageous that children in the fifth richest country in the world still have to suffer the consequences of poverty.
Barnardo's Child poverty campaigns
Barnardo's aims to reduce the impact of poverty on children, young people, families and communities through social, economic and community action.
Poverty is an issue that we see affecting families in most of the services we run.
We believe it is outrageous that children in the fifth richest country in the world still have to suffer the consequences of poverty.
What does Barnardo’s want to happen?
Welfare Reform
The Government is in the process of introducing a new Universal Credit in 2013 which it believes will reduce the number of children living in poverty by 450,000 by 2020-21. There are a number of issues with the reform which Barnardo’s believes could limit the impact on poverty reduction. We have been lobbying on reforms to:
- childcare
- benefit payments to young people
- free school meals
- child maintenance
- the social fund
- housing under-occupancy criteria
Please visit the website to know more about the services offered. http://www.barnardos.org.uk/what_we_do/our_work/child_poverty/child_poverty_campaigns.htm.
