Original Transmission date: December 2nd 2019.

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. Channel 4 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.

At its time of showing, Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids trended third on twitter and was praised in press the following day.

Vice Review - "This Harrowing Doc on Kids Going Hungry Should Be an Urgent Wake-Up Call"

New Statesman Review - "The documentary feels like a landmark moment in mainstream social affairs reporting"

★★★★ Guardian Review - "You could call these tragic stories Dickensian – if the word didn’t imply that things would come right in the end"

★★★★ Times Review - "as we shop for trinkets, this was a wake‑up call"

★★★★ Telegraph Review - "Our politicians need to see this heartbreaking documentary"