CPAG response to Labour manifesto
Responding today to Labour’s election manifesto, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said:
"A child poverty strategy is imperative and extremely welcome but its first action point has to be abolishing the two-child limit which more than any other policy has driven child poverty to record levels. There needs to be some real ambition on family incomes and real change won’t come for the 4 million children in poverty until the two-child limit and benefit cap are scrapped and the rate of child benefit is increased. Our responsibility to the future starts with ensuring all children can have a good start in life. Today’s manifesto is a good first step, but no route to happy healthy children and a strong economy starts with record child poverty. We will need to see detailed policies and targets that demonstrate how a reduction in child poverty will be achieved."