A CHILDREN’S charity manager in Northern Ireland has called for the country to follow in Scotland’s footsteps and introduce policy emulating the…
A CHILDREN’S charity manager in Northern Ireland has praised the Scottish Government's approach to tackling child policy, as he called for the country to introduce a policy emulating the Scottish Child Payment.
The report intends to “challenge the rhetoric that work is a route out of poverty” and reveals half of children living in poverty are in a household where at least one parent is working. In his piece, Kellagher wrote: “The absence of a Childcare Strategy in Northern Ireland is perhaps one of the most glaring failures to address child poverty here. Unlike England, Scotland and Wales, families here don’t have access to 30 hours of subsidised childcare.
“The real trick, of course, is for political leadership to do more than one thing at once. What would our society look like if we decided to seriously address child poverty?”
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