The withdrawal of pandemic-era support combined with the soaring cost of living was always likely to drive up poverty and today there’s evidence that Britain’s children have begun to pay the price.
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A survey carried out by the End Child Poverty Coalition – and seen exclusively by Channel 4 News – shows more than half a million have dropped below the poverty line in the last year.

But the government insists it has helped hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty in the last decade.
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