End Child Poverty in Australia.
“More than 820,000 Australian children are living in poverty and that this has increased by over 100,000 since the pandemic”
Every day in Australia, more than 823,000 children live below the poverty line.
The impact poverty has on children can last a lifetime. This is despite having parents who love them and trying to do their best.
Poverty affects a child’s health, mental health and wellbeing. Many children report missing out on essential items like food, clothes, housing and often friendships because they have to move so often.
We are calling on the Federal Government to legislate an end to child poverty and make children a priority in the Measuring What Matters national wellbeing framework.
Poverty affects our children
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1 in 6 children live in poverty.
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A child who lives in poverty is 3.3 times as likely to live in poverty as an adult.
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The Australian Government does not officially define or measure poverty.
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FAQs
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Ending child poverty requires us to define, measure and report where child poverty exists and how it impacts individual children. Permanently setting this in law, will change the generational cycle of all poverty forever.
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You can access our most up-to-date resources and reports on our page HERE covering key insights, research, and actions to help end child poverty.
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We must ask children how they experience poverty both material and non-material, which will inform governments and community on how best to respond. This honours a child’s rights and value in the community. Poverty denies children their human rights. They are completely reliant on us as adults to ensure those rights are upheld.
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Addressing poverty requires an entire systemic measure into the needs of the whole child, not just one or two elements such as food insecurity or homelessness. We must first begin to measure and understand the root causes of child poverty and the systemic solutions to ending it.
The fight to end child poverty is making headlines! From policy discussions to real stories of impact, media coverage is shining a light on the urgent need for action. See the media coverage here