Guardian poverty among children in Slovenia as an example to the British Government
Journalist Guardian Zoe Williams has visited Slovenia and In an extensive article described social measures and relatively low poverty of children in our country as an example to the British government and the world.
“Much of the world has no idea what to do about poverty of children or even ever do it. In the United Kingdom, the Laburist government recently postponed its leading policy to address this issue in the fall. However, if you are looking for inspiration, it may be worth asking what Slovenia is doing right. The country has the lowest rates of poverty of children in Europe, ”wrote Guardian A journalist.
The reason for the low level of poverty of children was recognized in the heritage of the welfare state from the time of socialism, as well as in the « deep, expressed commitment to the eradication of children’s poverty in Slovenia. » « They are never satisfied; There is too much child in poverty, « she described the situation in Slovenia.
In the EU, poverty is threatened by almost a quarter of children in the UK nearly a third
It refers to Eurostat’s statistics on the level of children, threatening a lack, according to which Slovenia, with just over ten percent of the endangered children, is by far the best in the EU. In this unfortunate average, the share of children threatened by poverty is almost a quarter. Likewise also notes Unicefwhich, given the level of poverty among children among the 39 countries in which the research was conducted, places first place and the United Kingdom in the 37th, the British woman warned.
In Slovenia, she also visited the Association of Anita Ogulin and emphasized the many benefits that parents and children, especially those from deprived families, have received in Slovenia due to heritage of socialism. Nevertheless, 41,000 children still live below the poverty limit. If Slovenia were just as big as the United Kingdom, it would mean 1.5 million children below the poverty border, but this is little compared to the actual number of poor children in the UK, where almost a third of children or 4.5 million live below the poverty.
In addition to the lowest level of poverty of children in Europe, Slovenia is also one of the safest countries and one of the countries with the most forests in the EU, the British journalist concluded on Slovenia.
