Social Mobility Index
Debate between Rupa Huq and Andrew Percy
Tuesday 9th February 2016
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Dr Huq
I just wondered whether my hon. Friend was aware of Fiona Weir from Gingerbread, who says:
“Further stigmatising single parent families will do nothing to tackle child poverty. Family breakdown doesn’t cause child poverty. It is unaffordable childcare, low levels of maternal employment and poor wages—”