C4 Dispatches: 4 Million Children Growing Up Hungry Under Tories’ Watch

TELEVISION - Following tonight’s Channel 4 Dispatches programme, the SNP has said this should be a wake-up call for the next UK government who must take urgent action to tackle the child poverty crisis - by immediately reversing the Tories’ brutal austerity cuts and ending the benefit freeze.
 
The programme, titled “Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids”, tracks the lives of a handful of children across the country who represent the four million now living in poverty and is a harrowing insight to the harmful impact the Tory austerity agenda has had on families across the UK.
 
This follows a damning report by the Resolution Foundation that reveals child poverty would reach “record high” under the Tories’ manifesto plans – which include £3.8 billion of further cuts to working-age benefits.

8 year old Courtney and her family live off £5 a day - they rely on a food bank to eat and wear coats to bed when there's no money for heating.

This is Britain today, where more than 4 million children are growing up in poverty.

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