Save the Children and pundit Jeffrey Peel clash over child poverty levels #bbcnolan

May 28, 2014, 09:10 AM

A record five million children in the UK could be trapped in poverty by 2020. That's according to new research by Save the Children.

The report claims children have paid the highest price in the recession, with families having being hit by a triple whammy of years of flat wages, cuts to benefits and the rising cost of living.

Fergus Cooper, Head of Save the Children in NI and Commentator Jeffrey Peel