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Institute of Fiscal studies. Poorer are better off and in an interview last week they stated that it has improved every year since 2009.

There's a variety of reasons for it but the bottom line is that it is improving

Of course its not - the Chancellor Osborne admits his policies favoured the rich at the expense of the poor.

Stop sending links to right wing rags - have a brain of your own.

Whatever the stats are (and the Cameron government rejigged the child poverty ones in a way that resulted in a seemingly but not necessarily actual downwards trend),child poverty remains a sad comment on what we as a society (and through our votes elected governments) don't even begin to try to really address.

As Dr Barnado's (hardly a left wing instituition) says:

"There are currently 3.7 million children living in poverty in the UK. That’s over a quarter of all children. 1.7 million of these children are living in severe poverty. . In the UK 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone works.

These child poverty statistics and facts will help to give you an idea of the scale of child poverty in the UK and the affect it can have on:

a child's education
a child's health
the day to day lives of families."

But their parents can afford flat screen tvs! (forgetting the fact that you don't really see the old tube tellys anymore)

Kind of linked to child poverty, the letter here is disgusting.

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More to do with a s***ty teacher, or certainly deputy head? More of an education issue. Plus the mother had already paid?

On another note and more on topic, anyone seen Jezza whilst the Tories turn ever so slightly Nazi?
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Of course he is but as is often the case with him it's about timing