The Government’s spending cuts will have a “catastrophic” effect on British children, a UN agency has warned, endangering their future health, education and employment.
Labour’s success in cutting the number of children growing up in poverty could be reversed, according to Unicef. Britain did better than many other rich countries in protecting children from deprivation after the financial crisis erupted in 2008, Unicef said in its annual “report card” on 35 developed nations. But it warned that the Coalition’s cuts to tax credits and freeze on child benefit will reverse this progress .... http://zen-haven.dk
