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Essential online learning on social security benefits and supporting low-income families

For 60 years, Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has led the fight to end child poverty in the UK. We bring together expertise and the voices of families to expose the causes of poverty and how they can be overcome. Our trusted advice, resources and training help frontline workers secure the vital financial support families need. Our research and campaigning challenge decision makers to create fairer policies for children and families.

Our CPAG fundraising heroes, amazing people who have raised money for CPAG's work to stop child poverty.

Follow the growth and development of CPAG, from the 'rediscovery of poverty' in the 1960s through our many campaigns to the passing of the Child Poverty Act in 2010 and beyond.

Find out more about our funders and what their support achieves, and read our annual report and accounts.

Poverty damages children's education, health and future.

Scrapping the two-child limit is the most cost-effective way to start to reduce child poverty. It would lift 300,000 children out of poverty and mean 700,000 children are in less deep poverty.

More than one in four children in the UK are growing up in poverty. It doesn’t have to be like this. Child Poverty Action Group works to prevent and end child poverty – for good.

CPAG in Scotland’s welfare rights seminar provides a timely opportunity to explore the current challenges and developments as we enter the final stages of migration to universal credit. We’ll look at the impacts once clients get UC and what the future holds once migration is complete in March 2026.

The Early Warning System gathers information and case studies about families and individuals affected by changes to the benefit system.