**NEW**
Child Poverty statistics published for 2019-20
As always, look at the trend too 1. PAST - child poverty has risen sharply since 2012 2. FUTURE - @resfoundation projected before Budget that child poverty would rise after the pandemic
Since 2012, that's a 19% rise in the number of children and a 14% rise in the percentage of children in poverty.
Mar 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Really disappointed to hear a @BBCr4today programme interviewer talk about 'illegal asylum seekers'. No such thing.
On such a big issue, how is it possible to get basic terms wrong? @omrgriffiths#r4today was getting this wrong 20 years ago when I used to work for a refugee charity - and when we had Straw and Blunkett thinking the answer to the asylum system was tough-talking not smart-acting
THREAD: Is the Govt changing its cherrypicking strategy on child poverty claims?
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
1. What PM wrongly claimed on child poverty in 2019, earning @StatsRegulation rebuke
2. What PM claimed on child poverty at PMQs on 18 Nov 20
In the first statement, the PM used 2010 as a baseline. At the time, relative poverty was rising and absolute poverty was historically weak - we could not see where the 400,000 claim had come from.
Stoke C: Highest percentage
Hendon: Highest numbers
Sedgefield: Biggest rise
1/5
Today, @EndChildPoverty coalition hosted by @CPAGUK & chaired by @AnnaFeuchtwang published estimates of child poverty broken down by LA, constituency and ward levels.
LETTER in the Times, in response to @jennirsl column on early intervention
Would be dangerously irresponsible to have an NHS with only A&E depts but no primary care or public health – yet this kind of short-sightedness is what we’re facing in children’s services.
Column: thetimes.co.uk/article/thugs-…
Letter: thetimes.co.uk/edition/commen…
We set up our crisis fund in direct response to frontline staff telling us our services were seeing families with children struggling to pay for their living needs.
The Emergency Fund was funded through generous donations from the pubic and by firms
Jul 30, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD:
How can PM level up the country if he cannot level with the public about how many children are in poverty?
THREAD: This morning the ONS published its Personal and Economic Wellbeing Bulletin.
This latest version looks at the impact of the coronavirus on our happiness and our worries.
Here are 4 key points - and their implications: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…1. *Anxiety has doubled*: Almost half (49.6%) of people in GB reported "high" anxiety 20-30 March; this was sharply elevated compared with the end of 2019 (21%), and equates to over 25 million people (out of the population aged 16 years and over).
Apr 23, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
THREAD @DailyMirror@JosephDWilkes has a story today covering our analysis showing how vulnerable families are heading into the economic storm mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/c… 1/8
This is especially worrying because the ONS today published polling showing that already 27% of people are using savings to cover living costs ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati… 2/8
At a moment when the Chancellor said we had never been more needed, charities are increasingly finding themselves in grave financial danger. (1/4)
We welcome the announcement by the Chancellor and look forward to seeing the detail, but the government will need to go further the longer the pandemic lasts. (2/4)
Mar 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
THREAD In the years 2014-2017, there were 368 Serious Case Reviews (carried out when a child dies or is seriously harmed by abuse or neglect)
Today, Govt quietly published an independent lessons-to-be-learned review based on these Serious Case Reviews. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
The impact of child poverty was seen as having a profound effect