UK politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
4 months agoStarmer warned two-child benefit cap will push poverty to all-time high
Keir Starmer faces backlash over the two-child benefit cap linked to child poverty fears.
"We know that kids or some families who may be accessing food through a student nutrition program in their school, can't access those programs during the summer," Toronto's manager of the poverty reduction office, Bryony Halpin, told CBC. "So programs like CampTO Nutrition is trying to improve access to nutritious snacks for kids who are attending city summer camps and are not getting access to food programs in their school community at that time."