POVERTY and profiteering are damaging children’s chances in education, teachers warned today as they called for a reversal of cruel Tory welfare policies.

A motion moved by the National Education Union at TUC Congress called for the government to “implement a comprehensive child poverty reduction strategy,” which includes increasing benefits in line with inflation and ending the two-child benefit cap and “rape clause.”

NEU president Amanda Martin said: “It cannot be denied that a situation that sees millions of kids in poverty has grown from 2010 onwards.”