I’ll be speaking to Pippa Crerar on BBC Radio 4’s Week in Westminster at 11am about the long-overdue scrapping of the Vagrancy Act and the importance of my amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Please tune in 📻

While poverty rises unchecked, our children are being socially prepared to fail. This week I’m moving my amendment to add child poverty targets to the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill. Hear why in my discussion with The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar:

It was great to meet the Minister for Employment Alison McGovern yesterday. The Minister also leads on the prevention of poverty and we had a very productive conversation

With child poverty predicted to rise to new pernicious highs, we cannot accept rhetoric in place of change – we need sustained, legislative action. The time has come to stop simply managing poverty and to begin ending it. Read our new report: bigissue.com/poverty-zero/

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The tragedy of 1611 deaths from the damage done by poverty, leading to addiction, is something that we could eliminate, if government seriously put resources into not allowing poverty to be all that you have at birth. bigissue.com/news/housing/h…