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Disabled children’s poverty report exposes ‘a scar on the UK’s conscience’
The fact that 40% of disabled children are living in poverty is ‘a scar on the conscience of ’, Unite, the union, said recently.
Unite called on ministers to act ‘immediately and urgently’ on The Children’s Society findings in its report - 4 in every 10: Disabled children living in poverty.
The report revealed that when the Disability Living Allowance is removed from family income, 40% of disabled children in the are living in poverty, rising to about 50% where there is also a disabled adult in the family.
The report’s recommendations include: investing more to ensure that all families with disabled children take up their full entitlement of disability benefits; and ministers not cutting the level of support for families with disabled children paid under the Universal Credit, which could adversely affect up to 100,000 disabled children.
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