A survey of paediatricians – published today on the one-year anniversary of government’s Child Poverty Taskforce – reveals that children are experiencing more severe health issues due to poverty, placing a system already stretched thin under much more considerable strain as well as affecting health outcomes in childhood and later on in life.
DWP figures out today show 1.6 million (1 in 9) children are affected by the two-child limit. 62 per cent of affected families have three children, and 59 per cent of affected families are working.
Today, the government published the annual statistics on families affected by the two-child limit. For the first time, these statistics include a breakdown of the impact by gender, ethnicity, disability, conditionality status, and age of the children in the household.
On 13 March, eight parents from across Britain came to Westminster for a meeting with the education secretary. All are parenting children with SEND while living on a low income, and shared their experiences and their calls for change with the education secretary, advisers and officials. Two more parents who could not be there in person had speeches read out on their behalf. This article brings together excerpts from these speeches.
This briefing covers the following announcements: the new crisis and resilience fund, free school meals, school-based nurseries, housing and employment support/benefits.
The Chancellor described austerity as destructive but government is still rolling it out in the two-child limit which pulls 109 children into poverty every day. Struggling families won’t feel any renewal until the two-child limit – the biggest driver of rising child poverty – is scrapped and that must happen in the Autumn budget. National renewal doesn’t start with record child poverty.
