The government must invest in social security to reduce child poverty, boost living standards overnight and improve wider economic, health and educational outcomes.
There are limited exemptions to the two-child limit in universal credit, one of which is if the child has been conceived non-consensually, either due to rape or coercive control. In that situation, the woman who has experienced this abuse has to disclose it in order to get vital support for her child. Since the two-child limit was introduced in 2017, this has been one of the most harmful, insidious aspects of an already deeply damaging policy.
More than 100 organisations representing doctors, teachers, social workers, health visitors and more warn government against ‘half-measures’ on two-child limit.
As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They deserve better.
CPAG’s annual Cost of a Child report looks at how much it costs families to provide a minimum socially acceptable standard of living for their children. It is calculated using the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research, carried out by the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
There are a record 4.5 million children living in poverty living in the UK today. CPAG forecasts that without further action this number will rise to 4.7 million by the end of this parliament. The government must invest in social security to reduce child poverty, boost living standards overnight and improve wider economic, health and educational outcomes.
The shocking failure to properly plan or to assess the impact of decisions made during the pandemic on children has left a generation paying a heavy price.
Recent public narratives around asylum-seeking have focused on mostly men arriving by small boats and staying in Home Office commissioned hotels. However, what is the experience of the children and families seeking asylum in the UK? What support do they really get? And to what extent does this support meet children’s educational needs?
More and more families are being capped because the cap threshold has been largely frozen since 2016 while the cost of living has risen sharply and rents in particular have skyrocketed.
