Children in England are experiencing "almost Dickensian poverty", with cases of overcrowded, rat-infested housing and mouldy food parcels, the Children's Commissioner has warned in a new report that calls for the two-child limit on benefits to be scrapped.
Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children's Commissioner for England, said that despite living in "one of the richest societies in the world," poverty has become distressingly normalised, noting that it was "deeply concerning how often children seemed to accept these inadequate situations as normal."
