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Our modelling shows that introducing a targeted child payment would deliver the most immediate and effective impact, cutting overall child poverty to 20%

Addressing these issues will require long-term labour market reform to improve pay, job security, and the structures that enable people to work.

📉But the most urgent priority for the NI Executive must be to reduce child poverty now.

⛔Structural barriers, particularly the high cost and limited availability of childcare, continue to prevent many parents from increasing their working hours.

We need to see bold, long-term interventions that make sure people in Northern Ireland facing rising housing costs are protected from going without life’s essentials.

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🪟Since 2002–05, the number of people living in the private rented sector has more than doubled to around 320,000 by 2021–24.

The poverty rate for private renters is up by 63% to 100,000 over the same period.

Action is needed from the NI Executive to help tackle this hardship.

This is pushing more and more households to depend on the more expensive and less secure private rental sector.

📈 Rents in Northern Ireland have increased by almost half (46%) since 2000, compared to 31% in England and 34% in Wales.

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