Children’s Commissioner backs calls for welfare reform to tackle child poverty
Parents’ stresses about the cost of living are at the forefront of young people’s minds, according to England’s Children’s Commissioner who branded it “deeply worrying” as she backed calls for welfare reform.
Dame Rachel de Souza said every single child she had spoken to for her latest major research project had answered yes when asked if their parents were worried about food costs.
Her Big Ambition research report covered a wide range of topics including family, jobs and skills, education, online safety and health – but Dame Rachel said the cost-of-living issue had been “ubiquitous in children’s responses”.
I asked every single child
