For immediate release: Wednesday 16 March 2016 In response to today’s Budget, Sam Royston, Chair of End Child Poverty said: “The End Child Poverty Coalition was looking to see measures in the budget to tackle child poverty, given the Prime Minister’s promise of an ‘all-out assault on poverty’ and that this would be a ‘turn-around […]
The End Child Poverty coalition welcomes the Government’s announcement that it will retain a legally binding commitment to continue to measure and publish the number of children living in families on low incomes, following a defeat in the House of Lords in January. Sam Royston, Chair of End Child Poverty, said: “You can’t know the […]
End Child Poverty has welcomed this evening’s vote in the House of Lords to retain income as a measure of child poverty. 3.7 million children are living in poverty in the UK, and two thirds of those have at least one parent in work, so it is crucial that the government sees poverty as more […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
