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Briefing

Child poverty and child benefits in Europe

17 January 2020
Families are inevitably at greater risk of poverty than other households because there are more people to maintain on a given income. Our societies have developed social policies to help families with children in the tasks of child rearing. This briefing explores child poverty and child benefit policy in different European countries, to see whether we can learn lessons from the social policies of others.
Briefing Children’s benefits Secure futures UK
Consultation response

Response to Scottish Government consultation on out of school care

18 December 2019
Our response to the Scottish Government's consultation on out of school care.
Childcare Consultation response Scotland
Briefing

A child-centred reform of children's social security

18 December 2019
As part of our Secure Futures for Children and Families project, Megan A. Curran, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University, examines how the social security system could be reformed to put children at the centre in this paper.
Benefit cap Benefit levels Briefing Childcare Children’s benefits Free school meals Sanctions and conditionality Secure futures Tax credits Two child limit UK Universal credit
Briefing

Seeking security in an increasingly insecure world

27 November 2019
As part of our Secure Futures for Children and Families project, Ruth Lister, member of the House of Lords and Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University, examines income security in our social security system in this paper.
Benefits for people from abroad Briefing Carers Children’s benefits Health Localisation Secure futures UK Universal credit Welfare reform Work and pay
Briefing

The problem with means-testing

04 November 2019
As part of our Secure Futures for Children and Families project, our CEO Alison Garnham looks at the problems with means-testing in the social security system.  
Benefit delivery Benefit levels Briefing Secure futures UK Welfare reform
Briefing

A manifesto for ending child poverty

01 November 2019
This election period, we want all candidates from all parties to make a commitment to tackle child poverty. We've put together the big things we're calling for from the next government in a manifesto. We want the next government to invest in children's benefits, bring in a child poverty strategy and build a more effective social security system for us all. 
Benefit delivery Briefing Child poverty strategies Children’s benefits Ending child poverty UK Universal credit Work and pay
Briefing

MSP briefing: Improving Disability Assistance

25 October 2019
MSP briefing for the 29th October 2019 debate on Improving Disability Assistance.
Briefing Scotland
Consultation response

Evidence for Social Security Committee on benefit take-up

24 October 2019
CPAG in Scotland's submission to the Social Security Committee's inquiry into benefit take-up.
Consultation response Scotland
Report

Pushing Back: Our take on life in poverty in London

18 October 2019
This report has been developed by the A Different Take London panel. We are a group of children, young people and parents with experience of living on a low income, and people from Child Poverty Action Group and the University of Leeds. Between January-June 2019 we have been discussing our own experiences and priorities and talking to the people in our communities, to develop our own agenda around the most important issues affecting the lives of people in poverty and what we think should be done about them.
Benefit levels Child poverty in London Child poverty strategies Education Housing Report UK Universal credit Work and pay London
Report

Worse off: The impact of universal credit on families in Tower Hamlets

16 October 2019
Tower Hamlets has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK: 57 per cent, after housing costs are taken into account. In 2017, Tower Hamlets became one of the first boroughs in London to become a universal credit ‘full service’ area. The London Borough of Tower Hamlets commissioned CPAG to research the experiences of families with children in receipt of universal credit.
Child poverty in London Report UK Universal credit London