FAITH LEADERS URGE THE GOVERNMENT TO LOOSEN THE GRIP OF POVERTY ON FAMILIES BY REMOVING THE TWO CHILD LIMIT POLICY

Today, 60 Bishops from the Church of England and senior representatives from other Christian, Jewish and Muslim organisations have come together to urge the Government to rethink its two-child limit policy, one year on from its introduction. In a letter to The Times, coinciding with the publication of a new report from the End Child […]

VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS FACE HIGHEST RISES IN CHILD POVERTY

  For immediate release: 22 March 2018   Vulnerable households face the highest rises in child poverty   The Households Below Average Income figures for 2016/7 released by the Government today show that children living in the most vulnerable households are facing the highest rises in poverty. Overall relative child poverty has continued to rise […]

MORE THAN HALF OF CHILDREN NOW LIVING IN POVERTY IN SOME PARTS OF THE UK

  PRESS RELEASE Embargoed until: 0001 hrs 24 January 2018   MORE THAN HALF OF CHILDREN NOW LIVING IN POVERTY IN SOME PARTS OF THE UK   The End Child Poverty coalition has today published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK.  The new figures reveal that there are now constituencies within […]