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 […]
The End Child Poverty coalition is urging the House of Lords to reject the Government’s plans to scrap legally binding commitments to report and respond to the number of children living in poverty. The Welfare Reform and Work Bill, due to be debated in the House of Lords on 25th January, would remove both the […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
