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Reference:
2019/0284
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Question by:
Jennette Arnold OBE
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Meeting date:
17 January 2019
According to the Children’s Society, those growing up in childhood poverty are more likely to underachieve at school, have employment difficulties in adult life, experience social deprivation, feel unsafe and experience stigma and bullying at school 1. With all three boroughs within my constituency appearing in the list of the 25 boroughs with highest levels of child poverty in the UK 2 I want to know what measures, short and long term, you have in place to tackle both poverty and its effects. 1 https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/ending-child-po… 2 http://www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/poverty-in-your-area-2018/