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image captionRates of child poverty are higher in Cardiff - with the south of the city the worst affected
Almost a third of children in Wales are living in poverty - the highest percentage of any UK nation, according to a leading children s charity.
Save The Children has called on the Welsh government to take urgent action or risk more children being swept up into poverty.
The Welsh government said it has increased support during the pandemic.
Poverty is not having enough money to buy food, clothing and a safe place to live and in 2015, the government set a target to make sure no child is living in poverty by 2020 .
Her comments come after a report released this week shone light on the school uniform cost burden faced by struggling families across the country. The paper, part of the Covid Realities partnership project between the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG), the Nuffield Foundation, and the universities of York and Birmingham, suggests parents are going without food and other essentials to buy uniform and kit for the school year. Kim, 37, who lives on Anglesey with her husband and four children and did not want to be fully identified, took part in the study. Two of her children are in primary school, one is at comprehensive school, and the other goes to college.