Children in Severe Poverty in Wales: An agenda for action

Published

March 2008

Over one in four children in Wales and across the UK live in households with an income below the commonly agreed poverty threshold of 60 percent median.

Over one in ten children in Wales live in severe child poverty where household incomes are below 50 percent median and children and adults in the household are lacking necessities because they cannot afford them.

Child poverty blights the lives of thousands of children in Wales, affecting their education, health, future employment and life-chances.

This report summarises the key findings of a Save the Children and Bevan Foundation project which investigated the circumstances of children living in the most severe child poverty in Wales.

The project reviewed effective approaches for tackling the barriers these families are facing and recommended a number of promising approaches to the Welsh Assembly Government.

• Download Children in Severe Poverty in Wales: An agenda for action report (PDF 346KB)
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