Save the Children: Severe child poverty Wales highest

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 poverty by 2020, this target is unachievable say “Save the Children”. Labour has been in power in Wales since 1999 and 13 years of a UK Labour government. This is just a catalogue of failures and still people keep voting for them, any other walk of life and these people would have gone a long time. “If you tolerate this, your country will be next”