CPAG News
Students and benefits - eligibility - last chance to book
19 February 2020
Confused about whether students can claim benefits? About whether they have to claim universal credit or can stay on 'legacy' benefits like tax credits and housing benefit?
Scotland's welfare rights conference 2020 now open for booking
19 February 2020
Our annual welfare rights conference returns to Glasgow on 12 June; delegate places and exhibitions stands now available to book
Child poverty facts and figures
4.1 million
children live in poverty in the UK
47%
of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty
70%
of children growing up in poverty live in working families
5.2 million
children expected to be in poverty by 2022
How can we end child poverty?
Child poverty is not inevitable. With the right action to address the causes of child poverty, we can end it.
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