For many, the experience of receiving support from our social security system is stigmatising. It leaves us feeling ashamed, undeserving and stuck. Turn2us has launched a campaign to address this, with the aim of making sure the system is there for all of us when we need it and treats us all with dignity and respect. What does the evidence show is causing stigma, and what needs to change as a result?
We welcome the government’s focus on pathways for young people. Many are currently unable to access and participate in learning opportunities and move into quality work, despite their willingness. We know from our work that young people are ambitious and want to develop fulfilling careers. However, there are a range of structural factors that are often working against them and for those who grow up in poverty and/or continue to live in low-income households, the barriers are significant.
As the Bill to scrap the two-child limit gets its second reading in Parliament today, 63 organisations - including those representing children’s doctors, teachers, health visitors and anti-poverty charities - have published a statement urging MPs to vote for ending the policy.
65 organisations have come together to commend the government for making the choice to scrap the two-child limit and ask all MPs to stand with children and support this Bill.
CPAG strongly supports the Universal Credit (Removal of Two Child Limit) Bill and we ask all MPs to vote in favour of the Bill at its Second Reading on 3 February 2026.
On 5 December, the government published the long-awaited, UK-wide cross-government child poverty strategy. The strategy contains a number of new policies to tackle child poverty, as well as previously-announced policies introduced since the government’s election last year. Taken collectively, the key policies in the strategy will deliver transformative change for some of the country’s poorest children and their families.
