Today the End Child Poverty Coalition published ‘8 Tests’ that it wants the government to meet, when the Tackling Child Poverty Strategy is launched in Spring 2025. Here a Youth Ambassador – aged 17 reflects on what it would mean to her, and other young people growing up in poverty if these tests were met. […]
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 00:01am 3/12/24 End Child Poverty Coalition publishes eight tests for the government’s Child Poverty Strategy The right strategy can halve child poverty in ten years, Coalition says Recommendations include immediately scrapping the two-child limit to benefit payments and setting legally binding child poverty reduction targets The government’s Child Poverty Strategy must have legally […]
For Immediate Release 30/10/2024 In today’s Budget the Chancellor has missed a key opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty The End Child Poverty Coalition, a network of over 120 organisations all campaigning for an end to child poverty has responded to today’s Budget announcement. We are calling for the two-child […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
