Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids
1 x 60’ Channel 4 Dispatches, 2019
Shooting Producer
In Britain today 4.1 million children are growing up in poverty. Narrated by Sheridan Smith OBE actress and singer, and from BAFTA-winning director Jezza Neumann comes a Dispatches special. We spent a year with three children and their families to show what life is like when you don’t have enough money for essentials. Told first hand through the children’s perspectives who are growing up in poverty, this is their story, in their words.
Nominated for 2020 Current Affairs BAFTA
Shortlisted for 2021 Broadcast Award
Photos: Alice Rowsome
“This was a programme designed to give a voice to those suffering their real-life effects, and to bear unsentimentalised witness to them. ”
“Whatever your political beliefs, there’s no getting away from the fact that this brilliant Dispatches is an indictment of Britain in 2019. In a wealthy country like ours, there should be no reason this film ever had to be made”
“The most articulate film on Poverty I’ve ever seen”