“Four in 10 children in Penparcau living in poverty, charity claims” Cambrian News
It’s worth linking to this as it’s been reported in the Cambrian News and been all over Twitter and Facebook. It’s an article by Caleb Spencer on the disapointing figures from the national charity End child Poverty that we reported on earlier in the year. The article is well written and highlights some of the issues that people in Penparcau, Ceredigion, Wales are facing.
The charity End Child Poverty is a National charity whose member include the NSPCC, Barnardos, Oxfam and so on... “In 2013, funding for Communities First — the Welsh Government’s programme for tackling poverty — was withdrawn, but volunteers in the community soon stepped in and CF was replaced by Penparcau Community Forum. A spokesperson for the forum said: “The community was really surprised when we saw this statistic, especially as there are more children in this ward than any other in the whole of Ceredigion. “A statistic like this is clearly disappointing. “We’d already seen Penparcau worsen by over 100 places in respect to the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation last year, which was appalling.” from the Cambrian News, article by Caleb Spencer. Monday, 16 November 2015 http://cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=100403