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POVERTY and profiteering are damaging children’s chances in education, teachers warned today as they called for a reversal of cruel Tory welfare policies.
A motion moved by the National Education Union at TUC Congress called for the government to “implement a comprehensive child poverty reduction strategy,” which includes increasing benefits in line with inflation and ending the two-child benefit cap and “rape clause.”
NEU president Amanda Martin said: “It cannot be denied that a situation that sees millions of kids in poverty has grown from 2010 onwards.”
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
