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THREAD: The Marmot Review 10 Years On, commissioned by @HealthFdn, reveals widening health inequalities and devastating impact of #childpoverty #Marmot2020 instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-repo… 1/n

@HealthFdn "Child poverty is not an inevitability, but largely the result of political and policy choices in areas including social
protection, taxation rates, housing and income and minimum wage policies" #Marmot2020 2/n

@HealthFdn "Rates of child poverty, a critical measure for early child development, have increased since 2010 and are now back
to their pre-2010 levels with over four million children affected." #Marmot2020 #marmot 3/n

@HealthFdn "Family poverty during childhood affects all aspects of development and health both in the short and long term and the increases in child poverty, assessed both before and after housing costs, in the last decade are a serious concern and must be reversed." #Marmot2020 #marmot 4/n

@HealthFdn "While we have highlighted areas which have made important improvements to children’s experiences and
outcomes in the early years through provision of effective support services; reducing child poverty would be a
more far–reaching and effective strategy." #Marmot2020 #marmot 5/n

@HealthFdn "Since 2010, rates of child poverty have
increased and inequalities in many social and
economic outcomes are widening. This is concerning
and will continue to have long-term negative impacts
on the lives of affected children and their families and
communities..." 6/n

@HealthFdn "...Reducing child poverty is an essential health and equity strategy, as well as important for influencing other outcomes throughout life." #Marmot2020 #marmot 7/n

@HealthFdn "Government responses aimed at reducing child poverty have been to encourage parents to work, and to provide free or reduced-cost childcare places to support this. However, increasingly, having parents in work is not a guaranteed route out of poverty for children in England." 8/n

@HealthFdn "Many countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have considerably lower rates of child poverty than England." #Marmot2020 #marmot 9/n

@HealthFdn "At the same time that child poverty rates have been increasing, there have been significant cuts in funding for family support services. The growing mismatch between need and funding risks widening inequalities in outcomes for families and children." #Marmot2020 #marmot 10/n

@HealthFdn Among #Marmot2020 recommendations are: increase levels of spending on early years; reduce levels of child poverty to 10%; & improve availability & quality of early years services including Children’s Centres. Read the full report here instituteofhealthequity.org/resources-repo… #marmot ENDS 11/11