Spending Review failed to commit to scrapping two-child limit

Responding to today’s Spending Review, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said: 

The Chancellor described austerity as destructive but government is still rolling it out in the two-child limit which pulls 109 children into poverty every day. Struggling families won’t feel any renewal until the two-child limit – the biggest driver of rising child poverty – is scrapped and that must happen in the Autumn budget. National renewal doesn’t start with record child poverty. 

Note to editors: 

CPAG media contact: Jane Ahrends 07816 909302