Child poverty is not inevitable. Making sure every child gets a good start in life is the right thing to do and the smartest investment we can make as a country.
Families with children face greater costs, and their income can be affected by low pay, lack of paid work, rising living costs and inadequate social security benefits.
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.
This year, we're continuing to expand our programme of online and in-person training courses to help ensure that advisers can help low-income families access financial support.
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.
Collating case studies and evidence to demonstrate the impact of changes in the social security system on the wellbeing of children, their families and the communities and services that support them.
