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UK child poverty rises - 66% poor children now in working families

28 June 2016
In 2014-15, UK child poverty increased by 200,000 to 3.9 million (after housing costs). 66% of poor children live in working families (up from 64%). London remains UK region with highest rate of child poverty (37%).
Benefit levels Child poverty legislation Child poverty statistics Childcare Costs and spending Ending child poverty Housing Life chances Press release Tax credits UK Universal credit Welfare reform Work and pay
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Statement on PIP: CPAG response

23 March 2016
Responding today to Stephen Crabb’s statement on personal independence payments, Child Poverty Action Group Chief Executive Alison Garnham said: “Stephen Crabb is to be congratulated for halting the PIP cuts and saying that there will be no more social security cuts this Parliament...
Benefit levels Costs and spending PIP Press release Tax credits UK Universal credit Welfare reform
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Budget 2016: the next generation comes second

16 March 2016
Responding to today’s Budget, Child Poverty Action Group Chief Executive Alison Garnham said: “This Budget puts the next generation last and set to be the poorest generation for decades. The Chancellor ignored both the 3.7m children in poverty now and the fact that according to IFS projections we face the biggest increase in child poverty in a generation...
Benefit levels Child poverty statistics Children’s benefits Costs and spending Ending child poverty Life chances Press release Tax credits UK Universal credit Welfare reform Work and pay
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"Tax credits reprieve a stay of execution, but wider cuts to family support still set to drive up child poverty” - campaigners respond to UK spending review

27 November 2015
Childcare Housing In-work benefits Press release Tax credits Universal credit Welfare reform Scotland
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Autumn statement: tax credits u-turn is a stay of execution

25 November 2015
Responding to the Autumn Statement today, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said: “The Chancellor’s half-solved the problem he created in the Summer Budget of how we help the low paid. His decision to drop the latest tax credit cuts is very welcome and will be a huge relief to hard-up working families but, as the Treasury’s own costings reveal, the significant cuts to universal credit mean that in reality this is only a stay of execution...
Benefit levels Childcare Costs and spending Housing Life chances Press release Tax credits UK Universal credit Welfare reform Work and pay
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Reaction to tax credits Lords vote

27 October 2015
In response to the House of Lords votes on tax credits, Imran Hussain, Director of Policy at Child Poverty Action Group, said: "The Government lost the votes in the Lords tonight but, more fundamentally, it's lost the big argument on its cuts for tax credits...
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Nursery Nurses, Security Guards, Hairdressers – New Research Reveals Scale of Workers’ Losses In Tax Credit Cuts

26 October 2015
As the House of Lords prepares to vote on tax credit cuts (on Monday 26th October), new analysis published today by Child Poverty Action Group reveals the extent to which workers in different jobs could lose out as a direct result of the controversial, proposed cuts. Nursery nurses, security guards, bank clerks and hospital porters are among those who would take heavy losses, the research shows.
Benefit levels Childcare Costs and spending Press release Tax credits UK Work and pay
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CPAG's response to David Cameron's speech

07 October 2015
Responding today to the Prime Minister’s Conservative Conference speech today, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said: “The Prime Minister is absolutely right to recognise that ending UK poverty would be a tremendous social reform and he deserves huge credit for putting poverty, social mobility and equality at the heart of his speech...
Benefit levels Child poverty statistics Childcare Costs and spending Ending child poverty Press release Tax credits UK Welfare reform Work and pay
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Hard Choices: Reducing the need for food banks in Scotland

16 September 2015
Benefit delivery Child poverty strategies Costs and spending Income maximisation Press release Tax credits Scotland
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Parents struggling to meet no-frills family costs as crisis in family finances looms

12 August 2015
Parents working on the minimum wage are on the brink of a new crisis in family finances that will leave many stranded when it comes to meeting no-frills family costs, warns a new report produced by Loughborough University’s Donald Hirsch for Child Poverty Action Group.
Benefit cap Benefit levels Childcare Children’s benefits Cost of a child Costs and spending Housing Life chances Press release Tax credits Two child limit UK Universal credit Work and pay