Learning about Child Poverty
Children and families living in poverty are experts in their own lives. By listening to their experiences, working alongside communities and testing new approaches, we're building evidence about what helps children thrive.
Explore insights, research, evaluations and stories from communities across the UK, and discover what we're learning about creating lasting change for children.
Featured Resources
EARLY YEARS KNOWLEDGE BANK
Understand more about how to give every child the best start in life: A collection of resources designed to support children 0–6 years old. This knowledge bank brings together insights from practice and researce and offers ideas and approaches to help strengthen a child's early development .
Parenting Together, Margate.
PARTICIPATING IN THE COVID-19 INQUIRY
The pandemic has had a lasting impact on a generation of children. Contributions to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry have helped bring children’s experiences into focus. Read about Save The Children UK's involvement in highlighting what needs to change so that future crises better protect and support children.
Learning with Communities
MARGATE EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY
Since 2018, families, local services and organisations in Margate have worked together to improve early learning outcomes for children aged 0-5. This collaboration has supported new ways of working locally and strengthened support for families.
FELTHAM EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY
In Feltham, families, educators, health professionals and partners have come together to design and deliver support for young children growing up in poverty. This work shows how local collaboration can create more joined-up systems for families.
BETTWS EARLY LEARNING COMMUNITY
A locally led partnership bringing together families and services to support early childhood development in Bettws, South Wales
FAMILIES CONNECT PROGRAMME
Families Connect supports parents and carers to build confidence, skills and resources to support children’s learning at home. The programme continues under Peeple, building on learning from its delivery in communities across the UK.
REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
- Supporting families for better childhoods, 2026 - No Limits to childhood election series for the Scotland parliament
- Navigating a path to end child poverty in Scotland, 2026 - No Limits to childhood election series for the Scotland parliament
- A better for Babies Guarantee, 2026 - No Limits to childhood election series for the Scotland parliament
- Briefing one: Housing, 2025 - one of four briefings developed as part of the No Limits to Childhood campaign
- Listen to us more, 2026 - A manifesto for children: 2026 Senedd election in Wales
- Briefing two: Childcare and Education, 2025 - one of four briefings developed as part of the No Limits to Childhood campaign
- Briefing three: Social Security, 2025 - one of four briefings developed as part of the No Limits to Childhood campaign
- Briefing four: Family-friendly Local Economies, 2025 - one of four briefings developed as part of the No Limits to Childhood campaign
- The Power of Voice, 2025 - Listening to children and young people about their experience of poverty in Wales
- We don't just want to survive, 2023 - Priorities for families for improving the social care system in Northern Ireland
Read more on our blogs
29 Jul 2026
London's Burning: a poem by Zainab, Save the Children Youth Advisor
Read Save the Children Youth Advisor Zainab's poem about how the heatwaves in the UK have impacted her and others.
19 Jun 2026
Parent view: Screen time - are parents really the problem?
Parent campaigner Thea Jaffe explains how families do not deliberately choose screen time, they resort to screens because they are time poor and burnt out.
18 May 2026
Hope is an action
Is it naive to write about hope after a weekend in which voices that seek to spread hate and pull us apart have been loud and organised? I don’t think it is.
