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nearly half of the worlds population; more than 3 billion people are living in poverty. 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty

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nearly half of the worlds population; more than 3 billion people are living in poverty. 1.3 billion live in extreme poverty

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when i think about poverty i think it is an unavoidable case but it can be supported to be reduced

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It is well known that children growing up in poorer families emerge from school with substantially lower levels of educational attainment. Such 'achievement gaps' are a major contributing factor to patterns of social mobility.

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‘It places a great deal of stress, a kind of trauma on the lives of very young children.’

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Poverty and education are inextricably linked, because people living in poverty may stop going to school so they can work, which leaves them without literacy and numeracy skills they need to further their careers. Their children, in turn, are in a similar situation years later, with little income and few options but to leave school and work.

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A single parent of 3 who is the carer of a one of their children only receives £243 a week to live on

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A single parent of 3 who is the carer of a one of their children only receives £243 a week to live on

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My Personal Experience of the Benefit Trap

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My Personal Experience of the Benefit Trap

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The birth of my daughter was a very difficult time, I was a single parent as her father and I separated when I was 2 months pregnant.  As a result I was in receipt of income support from her birth,  I was unable to manage work and afford nursery fees. When she was 18 months old I tried to look into getting back in to the working market by improving my skills and going back to college, I was faced with a job centre worker telling me that not only was there no help I could access but that I was better off on benefits , I felt destroyed.  When my daughter was 2 and half I took a big leap and started applying for jobs I was lucky to be offered a position in social services, however before I could accept the position I had to weigh up the affordability considering my rent, council tax, nursery costs etc. finally I found I could do it. It was not easy by any means!

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The proportion of children living in poverty in the United Kingdom has nearly doubled in the last 30 years. Three and a half million children live in poverty in the UK. Six in 10 of these live in low-income working families.

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Today, low-income students are four and a half times more likely to drop out of high school, and even those who are academically proficient are far less likely to complete college. The gap in SAT scores between wealthy and poor students has grown by 42% in the last two decades. And financial stability has become less attainable even for college graduates, with only one-third of adults under 35 forming independent households.

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63% of families in poverty have at least one parent that works

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Poverty means not being able to heat your home, pay your rent, or buy the essentials for your children.

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Poverty means not being able to heat your home, pay your rent, or buy the essentials for your children.

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‘We get stacks of homework and most of it is on the computer… I had to tell the teacher to print out a sheet so I could just fill it in but the teacher kept saying it wasn’t high enough quality homework. I would only score a five or three out of 10.’

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1.6 million people unemployed in the UK. (ONS, 2016)

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Workers struggle to spend quality time with their children and struggle to afford basic necessities for their children.

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Boys are more likely to have low results than girls, especially those of Bangladeshi, Pakistani and black African origin.

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Single parents are over twice as likely to live in poverty

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White children in poverty have on average lower educational achievement and are more likely to continue to under-achieve.

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Evidence has shownchildren from difficult backgrounds can overcome these difficulties and be successful. (Smidt)

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Children are acutely aware that their parents struggle with the cost of school. Where children were struggling with school costs, in many cases this led to embarrassment and bullying. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of children in families who are ‘not well off at all’ said they had been embarrassed because they couldn’t afford a cost of school. More than a quarter (27%) said they had been bullied as a result.

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1934) suggests that a child’s basic need for food, shelter and safety have to be fulfilled before any development or learning can occur

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Children growing up inpoverty and disadvantageare less likely to do wellat school. This feeds intodisadvantage in laterlife and in turn affectstheir children. 

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Children growing up inpoverty and disadvantageare less likely to do wellat school. This feeds intodisadvantage in laterlife and in turn affectstheir children. 

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more than half of parents (52%) said they struggled to pay for school meals and 1 in 5 children did not have school meals because they couldn't afford it.  

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more than half of parents (52%) said they struggled to pay for school meals and 1 in 5 children did not have school meals because they couldn't afford it.  

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Poverty is one of the most important and often ignored factors when looking at child development. (Smidt)

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Students from low income households are more likely to struggle with engagement

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Students from low income households are more likely to struggle with engagement

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children approximately two academic years behind by GCSEs - www.bc.co.uk

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A quarter (25%) of parents (and more than half of those in families which were ‘not well off at all’) said they had borrowed money in order to afford the cost of school.

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At the same time, more than half (52%) of parents said they had cut back on either clothing, food or heating to afford the cost of school. Nearly half (47%) cut back on clothing, 28% on food and 29% on heating

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3.7 million children living in poverty - Barnardos

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3.7 million children living in poverty - Barnardos

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More than two-thirds (70%) of parents say they have struggled with the cost of school. This rises to 95% of parents who live in families that are ‘not well off at all’

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one in ten of the poorest families can't afford to send their children on school trip.

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one in ten of the poorest families can't afford to send their children on school trip.

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Families living in poverty can have as little as £13 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport.

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Families living in poverty can have as little as £13 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport.

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Nearly two-thirds of the 77 million children not attending school worldwide are girls.

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Nearly two-thirds of the 77 million children not attending school worldwide are girls.

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child poverty in the UK and the affect it can have on:
a child's education,
a child's health and
the day to day lives of families. - Barnardos

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Part-time jobs have fallen over the last 30 years, increasingly difficult for many single parents to find work that will lift them out of poverty.

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Part-time jobs have fallen over the last 30 years, increasingly difficult for many single parents to find work that will lift them out of poverty.

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In the UK 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone works - Barnardos

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Homelessness is on the rise. Between 2010 and 2011, the number of families accepted as homeless by local authorities rose by 14 per cent, while recorded rough sleeping was nearly a fifth higher in Autumn 2011 compared with a year earlier

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Single parent families are one of the groups most vulnerable to poverty.

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Single parent families are one of the groups most vulnerable to poverty.

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Single parent families are one of the groups most vulnerable to poverty. The 1999 PSE survey found that single parents were well over twice as likely as all households to live in poverty, with two out of three single parents living in poverty

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According to the latest statistics over 3.9 million children are living in poverty in the Uk

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According to the latest statistics over 3.9 million children are living in poverty in the Uk

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Of these 1.7 are living in severe poverty

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Parents working on lower incomes are forced too work longer hours in order to cover housing costs, but this means parents with young children are having to pay out from more and more childcare, making them no better off than they were.
All this ensures is that parents are stressed, overworked and still unable to spend time with their children.

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