'There's so much I want to give my daughter - poverty means I can't'

rebecca is a single parent in swansea on one part-time paycheck. she says she cries in bed because of what she can't give her three-year-old daughter. she lives with her own parents because she couldn't survive on her own. danielle, a mother of four at the same playgroup, says she often skips things for herself so her kids can do after-school clubs. she wants year-round help with energy costs, not just winter warm house assistance. the children's commissioner for wales, rocio cifuentes, says child poverty levels haven't changed in 30 years. she wants the target of eliminating child poverty — dropped in 2016 — reinstated. she says children are coming to school with empty lunchboxes or can't afford the bus every day. the senedd election is on 7 may. parties differ on solutions: the welsh conservatives, greens, labour and lib dems all pledge free childcare. plaid cymru offers £10 a week for some low-income families. reform wants income tax cuts.