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Briefing

Supporting families during the COVID-19 pandemic

17 March 2020
CPAG welcomes steps that have been taken so far to support low-income people, but much more needs to be done to support families in this time of national crisis.
Briefing Children’s benefits Free school meals UK
Report

Tackling poverty in schools: final project report

12 March 2020
CPAG, alongside Diane Dixon Associates, have been working with schools in London to explore the role of primary schools in tackling child poverty. This report contains an outline of the main project activities, as well as a summary of the key learning to emerge from the project with a particular focus on how to scale up this type of work in schools.
Child poverty in London Education Extended schools Report UK London
Briefing

Still too poor to pay: council tax support in London 2018-19

12 March 2020
In April 2013, the government abolished council tax benefit and replaced it with locally run council tax support schemes, accompanied by a 10 per cent cut in funding for local authorities. Since then, CPAG and Zacchaeus 2000 Trust (Z2K) have been monitoring the changes to the 33 different localised council tax support schemes in London and assessing the impact of these schemes – both on low-income Londoners and on local authorities.
Briefing Child poverty in London Council tax reduction Localisation Two child limit UK London
Briefing

2020 Budget consultation

06 March 2020
CPAG responded to the Government's consultation before the 2020 Budget.
Benefit cap Briefing Childcare Children’s benefits Costs and spending Housing Two child limit UK Universal credit Welfare reform Work and pay
Briefing

Briefing for MPs for second reading of Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill

06 March 2020
On Friday 13 March, the Education (Guidance about Costs of School Uniforms) Bill will have its second reading. We are encouraging MPs to attend the second reading of this Bill. This briefing provides information about the costs of school uniforms and how these costs can impact families.
Briefing Costs and spending Education UK England
Briefing

Briefing for Lords debate on social security uprating

05 March 2020
It is of course welcome that after a four-year freeze, most working-age benefits are now to be uprated in line with inflation through this uprating order. However, this step does nothing to reverse any of the cuts to benefits in recent years: it will only keep benefits at the same real-terms value they have this year, and ‘lock in’ the current shortfall. It does nothing to compensate for the losses caused to families by years of failure to uprate benefits adequately while prices for food, bills and clothing have continued to rise. If we are to restore families’ living standards and start addressing rising poverty, benefits will need to rise by more than inflation to compensate for what has been lost.
Benefit levels Briefing UK
Consultation response

Response to Scottish Government consultation on Housing to 2040

28 February 2020
Our response to the Scottish Government's consultation on Housing to 2040 highlights the role housing can play in tackling child poverty and the interaction between social security and people's ability to pay their housing costs.
Bedroom tax Benefit cap Consultation response Local housing allowance Two child limit Universal credit Scotland
Briefing

Stage one 2020 budget briefing

27 February 2020
Our briefing to MSPs prior to the stage one debate on the Scottish Government's 2020-21 budget.
Briefing Scotland
Report

Dragged deeper: How families are falling further and further below the poverty line

13 February 2020
Lots of attention is given to the number of children in poverty but as a society we do not only care about the rate of poverty but also the depth of poverty. If everyone in poverty is very close to the poverty line we should perhaps worry less than when millions of people are substantially below the poverty line. A good way to measure the depth of poverty is the median poverty gap, which indicates how far below the poverty line the average family in poverty is.
Child poverty statistics Report UK
Briefing

Tax and secure futures

11 February 2020
The tax system does not raise enough money. But if the tax system is to support an effective social security system, reforms must go further than raising more money. The tax system should support the three principles that CPAG has recommended for an effective social security system.
Benefit delivery Benefit levels Briefing Secure futures UK Welfare reform