{"id":9878,"date":"2026-06-04T05:41:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:41:55","slug":"more-than-a-fifth-of-uks-austerity-children-scarred-by-poverty-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/06\/04\/more-than-a-fifth-of-uks-austerity-children-scarred-by-poverty-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a fifth of UK\u2019s \u2018austerity children\u2019 scarred by poverty, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A landmark study by the University of Oxford revealed that more than a fifth of all British children born after 2013 have spent at least six of their first 11 years living in poverty. The research, utilizing data up to 2024 across England, Wales, and Scotland, explicitly linked this surge in long-term childhood poverty to welfare benefit cuts and freezes imposed by recent Conservative governments. Researchers warned that this extensive exposure to austerity-era deprivation acts as a significant social problem that will cause long-term harm to the health, education, and overall life chances of the &#8220;austerity generation&#8221;. In response to the growing crisis, the current government recently abolished the controversial two-child benefit limit in a major policy shift aimed at lifting an estimated 450,000 children out of poverty by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: April 13, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/apr\/13\/uk-austerity-children-scarred-poverty-study-conservatives\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A landmark study by the University of Oxford revealed that more than a fifth of all British children born after 2013 have spent at least six of their first 11 years living in poverty. The research, utilizing data up to 2024 across England, Wales, and Scotland, explicitly linked this surge in long-term childhood poverty to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9998,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/revisions\/9998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}