The withdrawal of pandemicera support combined with the soaring cost of living was always likely to drive up poverty and today there's evidence that Britain's children have begun to pay the price.
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A survey carried out by the End Child Poverty Coalition and seen exclusively by Channel 4 News shows more than half a million have dropped below the poverty line in the last year.
But the government insists it has helped hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty in the last decade.
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