A higher proportion of children in Wales live in severe poverty compared to the rest of the UK, according to Save the Children. It said 90,000 children (14%) live in low income homes which are often poorly heated and where it is a struggle to pay for basics like food and clothes. This compares to 13% in England and 9% in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Labour have pledged to eradicate all child pov...

There has been some speculation that the Government is prepared to walk back on its commitment to end child detention. I want to say, clearly and on the record, this is not the case. Nick Clegg has rightly described the locking up of children for immigration purposes as a moral outrage. More than 1,000 children

The Liberal Democrats played the central role in delivering the Coalition Government’s commitment to end child detention and we have delivered big time.   In 2009 under Labour, more than a thousand children were held in pre-departure detention. In August 2011, there were just three children detained under immigration powers.    Indeed, the Children’s Society has

George Osborne has announced that the Coalition Government plans to scrap child benefit payments for families where one or both parents is a higher rate taxpayer. Child benefit is currently paid to families (normally to the mother) where any children are under 18. It isn’t a means tested benefit: you have to apply and show

The hysteria from the Poverty Industry gets even more shrill with their lunatic claim today that "Millions of children in the UK are living in, or on the brink of, poverty" The Campaign to End Child Poverty says 5.5 million children are in families that are classed as "struggling" - 98% of children in some areas. The Campaign to End Child Poverty is a coalition of more than 130 organisations inclu...

Save The Children is another of those charities that, in the past, managed to do charitable deeds in an understated way. Then, like so many other charities, it was captured in a Gramscian coup, by leftist radicals who seem intent on using charitable institutions as a way of advancing a political agenda (all paid for, naturally, by us as taxpayers). Today Save The Children has decided to indulge in...

Harman's equality bill will not protect young people, say charities A damning report by Britain's leading children's charities accuses the government of failing to protect children from discrimination by excluding them from the forthcoming equality bill. Young Equals, a coalition including the Children's Society, Save the Children and the Children's Rights Alliance of Engl...

How many of the 5.5m children "living in, or on the brink of poverty" have parents who can afford to drink and smoke!?! Who is responsible for "lifting" Karen Matthews' family out of poverty when she has had seven children by five different fathers. Government targets for reducing child poverty should focus on discouraging the feckless and work shy from having more and more children rather th...

The Coalition is planning to raid the child benefit budget again by reducing the age of children who qualify for the payout.

Jonathan Porritt, an advisor to the government on environmental issues, says that couples who have more than two children are putting an irresponsible burden on the environment. How long until he goes the whole hog and we have a one child policy akin to that in Communist China? Just when you think environmentalists cannot infringe on our freedoms any more than they already have, they prove they ca...