How Does Poverty Affect Children

I am going to focus on how poverty affects children’s development. Research shows that statistics is estimated at 3.5 million children live below the poverty line in the U.K. (Child poverty in the UK, unicef) and according to Child poverty snapshots, the local picture in Wales, save the children “approximately 600,000 children live in Wales and that one in three or 200,000 children are living in poverty in wales”. The main key issues I will be looking into are; the affect poverty has on education and the strategies to support families. These key issues are important as practitioners would be able to see the barrier poverty has on children’s learning and how to overcome them.
Education: Poverty can affect children’s education in many ways because
The parents may not have the money to provide gas for heating which means that the child would be living in a cold household. Another reason could be that the children have poor nutrition because money is limited within the family and healthy food costs a lot more than unhealthy food. This could also cause health issues for example diabetes. Also if the child’s health is poor then the child could be missing out of a lot of education which could lead to the child having no friends and finding it difficult to ease into a setting and have confidence in their
It could also motivate the children to strive for the best in education to get a job in the future which would benefit and support both them and their family. They could even gain a healthy eating habit because if families are limited on money they are more likely to buy fruit/veg which are due to run out of date in order to provide food for their family than buying junk food as their money is limited and when sell by dates are upcoming foods drop in price for under a