This should not be happening in 2023.
Children in Leeds are “literally dying” from poverty, despite government statistics suggesting the overall situation is improving, a senior councillor has said. Numbers from the Department of Work and Pensions suggest 22 per cent of kids in the city are now living in poverty, down from 24 per cent the previous year.
But the head of the council’s Conservative opposition called on the local authority to do more to tackle the “root causes” of poverty locally. Speaking at a meeting of the council’s executive board on Wednesday, Coun Venner said: “I think it would be really, really apparent to anybody who works with children and famlies that there’s no way child poverty is falling. Not in Leeds, not anywhere else in the country.
Councillor Venner added: “The fact children are literally dying because of poverty is chilling. As a council we don’t have the levers to pull people out of poverty."I wish we did. That’s down to central government and there are some incredibly cruel policies which impact on children.”
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