Antonia (Lai Wa) KEUNG

Published on 11/10/2024

KEUNG Antonia (Lai Wa) Aged 44, sadly passed away at the York Hospital on 1st October 2024. Lecturer at the University of York, she leaves a legacy of influential research focused on children wellbeing, child poverty, and fiscal welfare and inequality. Her work informed and steered policy including the modelling of the £20 uplift of the Universal Credit at the height of the pandemic and subsequently the impact of its removal on fuel poverty and incomes. Earlier research led to the rollout of the new Scottish child payment as a top-up benefit for all low-income families in Scotland and development of the first National Wellbeing Survey for Children and Young People in the UK, and the establishment of the Good Childhood Index providing a blueprint for the National Wellbeing Survey of the Office for National Statistics. Beloved wife to Kris and a loving mother to Alexander, 12, and Dorothy, 7, she will be greatly missed by her immediate and wider family in Hong Kong and Poland and friends and colleagues in the UK and Overseas. Funeral service will be held at the York Cemetery Chapel on Tuesday 15th October at 1pm. Family flowers only please. Donations in Antonia's name can be made to UNICEF through a funeral website or into a collection box in the chapel. All enquiries Rowley and Sons Funeral Directors, Tel: 01904 593096.

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