The poverty line in the UK is defined as a household income below 60% of the national average (according to the relative income poverty approach), and child poverty has now reached harrowing proportions. The UK National Education Union (NEU), in response to an independent poll completed by 1026 NEU members between Nov 23 and 26, 2018, go so far as to say that the poll paints a Dickensian picture, with an admonitory tone toward a government increasingly “out of touch with the distressing new reality of children's daily lives”.
Original Article: [In Context] A generational struggle to feed a healthy brain