The End Child Poverty Coalition today welcomed the Chancellor’s announcement not to introduce cuts to in-work tax credits. We know that tax credits are an essential part of family income, not least for the 2.4 million children in poverty in working households.
The End Child Poverty coalition of leading charities, civil society organisations and faith groups is calling on the House of Lords to ensure the government keeps reporting to Parliament on child poverty as a matter of priority, not side-lining the measures in light of bleak projections of steep rises in child poverty.
The government is discussing a welfare reform and work bill, which would repeal the existing Child Poverty Act and Strategy, and replace it with a Life Chances Strategy. This new strategy would measure educational attainment and worklessness, but not income or levels of poverty. End Child Poverty is asking the government to keep measuring income […]
