300,000 more UK children fell into absolute poverty at height of cost-of-living crisis
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Nearly a fifth of the population struggled with basic needs, it emerges, as charities accuse Government of failing poorest.
By Patrick Butler, Social policy editor
About 300,000 more children were plunged into absolute poverty in a single year at the height of the cost-of-living crisis amid soaring levels of hunger and food bank use, official figures show, prompting calls for an overhaul of the UK’s creaking welfare safety net.
Campaigners accused the Government of failing to protect the UK’s...
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