"Nearly a quarter of children born in Britain since the 2010s have faced poverty for at least half of their childhoods due to sweeping austerity era' benefit cuts."
"The proportion of children born after 2013 spending at least six of their first 11 years in hardship surged to 23 per cent after ministers froze working-age benefits."
"These austerity measures drastically shrank annual welfare spending by tens of billions and took thousands of pounds from low-income family budgets."
"Our study shows that policy matters; when support for families on low incomes is stronger, long-term childhood poverty falls."
Research from the University of Oxford reveals that nearly 25% of children born in Britain since the 2010s have experienced poverty for at least half of their childhoods. This increase is attributed to austerity measures, including frozen working-age benefits and the two-child limit, which have drastically reduced welfare spending. The study indicates that these policies have pushed hundreds of thousands of children into sustained poverty, resulting in long-term negative impacts on health, education, and life opportunities.
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