Policy briefings and reports
Catch up on all the key findings and recommendations from our research and project work.
Our latest policy reports and briefings
Read our latest policy reports and briefings.
CPAG’s 2025 pre-Budget briefing
The government must invest in social security to reduce child poverty, boost living standards…
The non-consensual conception exemption to the two-child limit – or the ‘rape clause’
There are limited exemptions to the two-child limit in universal credit, one of which is if the…
The Cost of a Child in 2025
CPAG’s annual Cost of a Child report looks at how much it costs families to provide a minimum…
Raising three kids on £3 a week: The reality of the benefit cap
A lone parent family with three children can now expect to be capped across 95 per cent of England…
Reducing child poverty: role of the two-child limit
Abolishing the two-child limit is, by far, the most cost-effective way of reducing child poverty,…
Cost of the School Day in West Lothian
This briefing looks at the difference that local authority support and guidance can make to Cost of…
Briefings and reports by topic
Social security
Our Early Warning System, and our Scotland project, Strengthening Social Security: research into the five family payments focus on social security.
Our past social security projects were:
- Secure futures for children and families
- Universal credit, digitalisation and the rule of law
- our managed migration research project
Read our past social security project reports and briefings.
Employment
Our Your Work Your Way project on supporting parents and carers into employment has now finished. You can still read the Your Work Your Way reports and briefings.
Cost of a Child
In 2024, the cost of raising a child to age 18 was £260,000 for a couple and £290,000 for a lone parent. Read more about what it costs to raise a child in our Cost of a Child reports.
David Webster's briefings on benefits sanctions
Dr David Webster, Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Urban Studies) at the University of Glasgow, produces regular briefings on benefit sanctions.