Researchers say hardship is a direct legacy of welfare benefit cuts imposed by Tory governments in recent years

Collapse isn’t always quick, and people often don’t call it collapse until it gets to the quick part but make no mistake this is collapse.

Whatever doesn’t kill you leaves life long scars you may never escape.

Austerity policies, which drastically shrank annual welfare spending by tens of billions a year and took thousands of pounds a year out of low-income family budgets, effectively pitched hundreds of thousands more children into sustained poverty.

The University of Oxford study said the austerity-era growth in children exposed to poverty for most of their formative years was a “significant social problem” that would cause long-term harms to their health, education and life chances.

Link to open access paper…

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/longterm-childhood-poverty-in-britain-trends-and-drivers-across-the-19912017-birth-cohorts/EB82A755D2D572C5BDA573EE31753C32