Parents cutting back on food and clothing due to benefit reforms lead to adverse impacts and fabric hardship for children, researchers findEducation experts are calling on the government to review its bedroom tax after early research indicated it was having an adverse impact on learning because affected children were stressed and hungry at school.
Researchers from Manchester University found that children were showing signs of emotional distress because they were seeing their parents under pressure and were experiencing fabric hardship as a result of the benefit lop.
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Source: theguardian.com