Join us in London and Manchester this autumn for our annual Welfare Rights Conference - a must-attend event for advisers committed to learning about and discussing the latest developments in social security.
Poverty can mean children going without basics, and it can also mean missing out on everyday fun and activities that other kids take for granted. Poverty harms children's health, social and emotional wellbeing, and education. It harms their childhoods and their futures.
The benefit cap affects the poorest families. Living in deep poverty is particularly damaging for children’s life chances. Getting rid of the benefit cap would mean that about 300,000 children would be living in less deep poverty.