UK aid budget cuts are ‘death sentence’ for world’s most vulnerable children

Save the Children and Oxfam urge government to restore aid budget back to 0.7% of national income

UK aid cuts are a death sentence" for children in the world's most dangerous places, aid charities have warned after an internal government report revealed the impact of budget reductions on the most vulnerable.

The government faced calls from NGOs including Save the Children and Oxfam to restore the aid budget back to 0.7% of national income, after the potential effects of cuts were outlined in grim detail by an assessment produced by civil servants.