1.3m babies and kids under 5 live in poverty in Britain, 'shocking' new report finds

mirror.co.uk:

Boris Johnson has been warned he risks leaving "a generation of children languishing in poverty" after it was revealed 1.3 million babies and children under five are living in poverty in the UK.

New research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the baby bank charity, Little Village, underlined how many children are being left behind.

The report found 34 per cent of families with one child under five live below the poverty line, meaning they survive on less than 60% of the median household income in the UK.

1.3 million of the 4.2 million children in poverty in the UK are babies and children under the age of 5. Two in five of the families of the children in poverty have seen a reduction in their earnings as a result of the ongoing Covid