Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town calls for increase in child social grant to address child food poverty

A new report released by the Department of social development and the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town has reveled that child food poverty can be eliminated by increasing the child social grant and this would benefit not only the children but households that are already struggling to make ends meet. According to the report this decision will in turn help to reduce the rates of child hunger, malnutrition and stunting. Katharine Hall, senior researcher at the Children's Institute at the University of Cape Town explains the modelling options and budget impact