The reality of child poverty in the UK
Barnardo's aims to reduce the impact of poverty on children, young people, families and communities through social, economic and community action.
Around one third of our work focuses on the alleviation of poverty, and it is an inescapable element of nearly all our services.
Did you know?
Families living in poverty have less than £10 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport.
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In March 1999, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair made an historic commitment to end child poverty by 2020, and to halve it by 2010.
On current policies, the government will miss their 2010 target, seriously harming their chances of reaching their 2020 target.
As a member of the Campaign to End Child Poverty, Barnardo's is lobbying the government to make sure they keep their promise to the hundreds of thousands of children living in destitution and deprivation in the UK today.
- What is poverty? learn about the reality of poverty in the UK.
- How to halve child poverty by 2010: a report published by Barnardo's and Deloitte in September 2008
- Taking action: find out what we are doing and help us to make sure the government keeps their promise.
