Claim: At the beginning of 2020 there were 4.3 million children growing up in poverty.
Fact-check: Poverty is not the same as food insecurity - Full Fact
Verdict: this is correct, according to data on relative poverty after housing costs. other measures of poverty would show different figures.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross
Date published: 2021-04-09T00:00:00