4 in every 10: Disabled children living in poverty

A recent report from the Children’s Society has revealed that 40% of disabled children in the UK live in poverty. Of those, 110,000 are experiencing severe poverty.

The report highlights four key recommendations for addressing poverty in families with disabled children.

• Child poverty statistics should reflect the additional costs of raising a child with a disability
• The government needs to ensure all households with disabled children take up their full entitlement to disability benefits
• The Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission and the Office for Disability Issues should work together to establish an implementation plan for eradicating poverty among disabled children by 2020
• The government must not cut rates of support for disabled children under the Universal Credit
  

Full report (PDF 20pp)

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