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 […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28/10/2024 UK Government must scrap the unfair two-child limit at the Budget, say leading children’s charities Since the Labour party took office on 4th July, and by the time the Budget is announced, a staggering 12,500* children have been plunged into poverty due to the two-child limit on benefit payments. This […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
