What children think and feel about growing up poor

“More than 3.5m children live below the poverty line in the UK, which has one of the worst child poverty rates in the industrialised world. Four youngsters explain what it is like growing up when a family has little money.

“You must be kind of bad to put people in houses like this,” says 10-year-old Paige” BBC article regarding the programme ‘Poor Kids‘ which will be featured on BBC 1 10.35pm 7th June. 

The article and programme fetaure Sam who is 11 and lives in Leicester.