Tackling child poverty is important as it impacts directly on child health, development and safety. Growing up in poverty can impact on children’s futures with longer-term impacts on adult health, wellbeing and economic prospects. Poverty is a key driver of health inequalities which are the avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health outcomes between different groups of babies, children and young people.
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