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Reported cuts to disability payments risk undermining wider government efforts to reduce child poverty, new analysis by Child Poverty Action Group shows.

Child Poverty Action Group is warning that the government’s child poverty strategy will most likely fail to reduce child poverty unless it scraps the two-child limit and has binding targets.

To help inform the UK government’s work, we have set out how to deliver an effective child poverty strategy.

This briefing raises the alarm about several myths and misunderstandings concerning Scottish child payment that advisers commonly hear from families.

Response to the Social Justice and Social Security Committee's call for views

I had an interesting meeting I wanted to tell you about. I had the opportunity to meet with the Minister for Employment and the Secretary of State for Education at 10 Downing Street.

This final report outlines the issues relating to managed migration as the DWP has begun sending migration notices to claimants with much lower incomes and who are likely to be more vulnerable. It highlights how the support offered can be improved to ensure that those facing the greatest barriers are able to make and sustain a UC claim. Lastly, is looks at the experiences of people who have completed the move to UC to highlight how UC can work better for everyone claiming.

The Chancellor brought good news on breakfast clubs and universal credit deductions but this was not a Budget of bold action on child poverty.  The Chancellor missed a golden chance to scrap the two-child limit, a policy that will pull 16,000 extra children into poverty by the time the government’s child poverty taskforce reports in spring.

We welcome the government’s ambition on child poverty but this budget played for time that far too many children and families can’t afford. The spending review next spring will have to deliver much more to make a significant difference for children in poverty.

In advance of the autumn Budget on 30 October, CPAG submitted evidence to the government on the steps needed to reduce child poverty.

In the absence of leadership from Westminster in recent years, devolved governments and local authorities have developed their own strategies to tackle child poverty. The UK government has now committed to developing a UK-wide cross-government child poverty strategy, which is a hugely welcome step. What key lessons from experiences of developing child poverty strategies in the devolved nations should inform the future development of a UK-wide cross-government child poverty strategy?