Tests for the child poverty strategy: will it help young people today?

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. […]

Youth Ambassador Speaks out on Period Poverty

Written by Darcy, aged 17 from Kent who is an End Child Poverty Youth Ambassador. Period poverty isn’t spoken about enough but it affects 3 in 10 girls in the UK. For these girls, managing their period is a huge challenge, not just because of the lack of access to products but also due to […]

New Research: Majority of families impacted by the two-child limit are working

We worked alongside the Financial Times to highlight shocking new data on the two-child limit to benefit payments. This new data shows that 81 per cent of two-parent families affected by the limit have at least one working parent. This data was obtained by Freedom of Information requests to the relevant government departments that deal […]