NASUWT comments on the Coalition Government’s Child Poverty Strategy
Commenting on the launch of the Coalition Government’s new Child Poverty Strategy, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“According to the Child Poverty Action Group, more than one in four children are living in poverty in the UK today. The Charity has warned that Coalition Government policies are predicted to result in an estimated 600,000 more children living in poverty by 2015/16. The figures are rising year on year.
“However this Coalition Government chooses to dress it up, its social and economic policies are driving up child poverty. A few giveaways around food vouchers and small reductions in utility bills will not address the scandal of child poverty in the UK.
“Refining how child poverty is measured will not do anything to help improve the life chances of the poorest children and young people and cynics might say this latest announcement is simply an attempt to distract and conceal the extent of the problem.
“The fact is that the only answer is for the Coalition to reassess its programme of economic and social reforms which are wreaking misery and hardship on increasing numbers of children and young people.”
ENDS
Lena Davies
Press and Media Officer
NASUWT
0121 457 6250 / 07867 392746
lena.davies@mail.nasuwt.org.uk
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