Unconditional cash transfers for the poorest are a very good thing. End of.

Another excellent contribution from @louisehaighmp.bsky.social 👇

“In the face of rising authoritarianism, creativity is an enduring movement superpower that helped us break through the stranglehold of fear this year.” And more to come in the new year!

I have known DAME Anneliese Dodds for more than 25 years. No-one works harder or cares more. So pleased to see this recognition of years of public service

What do you think our economy could do with an extra £1.6bn? Let's make 2026 the year we finally #LiftTheBan and let people work - for people seeking safety, for the communities that could benefit from their skills, and for our economy.

This is also why "involving children in creating new institutions and renewing systems" is ultimately better than "defend the existing status quo which was developed decades ago" - even when we like the existing institutions and systems and they do good things

I've been aware for a while of the work by faith and other community groups to support people seeking asylum. So I asked the @refugeecouncil.bsky.social where there was really vigorous community support. They said Northallerton. Here's what I found when I went there: as.ft.com/r/b3449fbd-3...

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Whether it’s @savethechildren.org or @unicef.org or many other charities working on the ground in Ukraine, Sudan, Gaza and across the world - their work must be supported and the work to secure peace must continue.

Here's my review of 2025. It's a story of how collective action helped lift over half a million kids out of poverty, and how even in the toughest of times a better future is possible. medium.com/@DanPaskins/...

In what is possibly the least surprising news ever….

Tabloids labelled the end of the two-child limit on benefits the 'opening of benefits street'. Joseph Howes explains why this is so dangerous.

Stacey from @changingrealities.bsky.social has written such an honest blog about why, even with awful trolling, she won’t stop speaking up for people living in poverty www.changingrealities.org/blog/why-i-w...

Just 1 day to go until Christmas Jumper Day & Christine Lampard has a message for everyone here who's getting ready to take part and raise money to support children around the world!🎄🎅🌟

The Government's Child Poverty Strategy begins to turn the tide on child poverty. As a result, child poverty rates will fall next year – the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic). But other child poverty headwinds remain. Read our full statement 👇 buff.ly/Tnqasir

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Literally every expert in how to help children: pls get rid of 2 child limit, here is the evidence about why this would help children Government: ok we will get rid of 2 child limit and help children Journalists: why is the government putting party before country

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

📣New @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis Scrapping the 2 child limit alone has reversed the projected decline in living standards by *more than half* for the bottom third of households 1/2

This by @liamthorp.bsky.social is excellent

The Chancellor made a bold claim today that this parliament will see the biggest reduction in child poverty since records began. If the Budget doc projection of child poverty falling by 400,000 is right, so is the claim. Removing the two child limit is pivotal to this reduction.

This is such important news. Hundreds of thousands of children taken out of poverty with the stroke of a pen.

The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families. In April 2025, out of families impacted by the limit: - 6 in 10 had 3 children. - 6 in 10 had at least one person in work. - And 6 in 10 are receiving a health or disability benefit.

Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.

We welcome this bold action by the Chancellor to scrap the two-child limit. By the end of this Parliament, 450,000 children across the country will have been lifted out of poverty. Scrapping this unjust policy is the single most powerful step to reduce child poverty in a generation. 1/3

That’s how much the Government spends on welfare, but what do people receive in return? Here we can see a generational shift in the generosity of support over the past two decades. Since 2010, changes to benefits have largely favoured older age groups, while families with children have lost out.

Budget day is here. For all the reasons in this thread & for hundreds more, let’s hope @teamlabouruk.bsky.social does the right thing and gets rid of the two-child limit, a callous policy that has no place in a compassionate country largerfamilies.study

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

People expect Labour to reduce child poverty- esp as years of cost of living crisis means hardship is a shared experience. Removing the two child limit is a crucial policy, and how it’s argued for matters for levels of support. Good from @luketryl.bsky.social www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

83% of the public agree that no child should be living in poverty in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

No one in the UK should experience destitution - wherever they were born – and destitution should never be an acceptable outcome of policy. But some policies announced in the Home Secretary’s asylum statement risk increasing destitution. 🧵1/7 www.gov.uk/government/p...

“give multi-year general operating dollars (MYGOD), fund faster, give more, remove barriers they impose on nonprofits —do what conservative funders have been doing for decades for their grantees. Get over these paternalistic, condescending philosophies and assumptions and act like true partners.”

Moazzam Malik, chief executive of Save the Children UK, writes about why the government must scrap the two-child limit on benefits.

It really is worth taking the time to hear from people like “Mary,” who fled from Zimbabwe 20 years ago, to understand what life is like when the law denies you the chance to call the country where you’ve made your life home

Stormont’s Executive parties & Opposition stand united in a call - backed by so many in the community & voluntary sector - for the full scrapping of the 2-child limit! #everychildcounts @savechildrenuk.bsky.social @trusselluk.bsky.social

FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.

Less than two weeks till the budget. Today, I'm sharing a letter sent to MPs by parents affected by the two-child limit & benefit cap a year ago, which set out their simple plea that every child be treated the same. Listen and share it (please) @cpaguk.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kW-...

More & more it's clear that the most effective way to help people is to listen, to understand needs, & then find ways to meet needs. A holistic, human approach. And at the same time, i see overwhelmed services having tighter & tighter criteria on what we can offer. It's narrow & service-centric.

Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round

Are you a developer, local authority, designer or community organisation seeking to embed children’s rights, needs & voices into planning & placemaking? These case studies, developed by the TCPA with A Place in Childhood, deliver inspiration plus practical learning & knowledge: shorturl.at/JE2G8

Was honoured to speak at the 60th anniversary of the Child Poverty Action Group last week: open.substack.com/pub/alisonmc...

Great to hear the Chancellor make the common sense case for removing the 2 child limit.⬇️ We've seen positive first steps & clear commitment to tackling poverty in their first year. Now we need bold action in the Budget to give children a fair start & reduce the need for emergency food.

The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.

'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.' - Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.

This is not the time for half measures. @alexclegg.bsky.social explains why the Government should fully repeal the two child limit on benefits, as part of their upcoming Child Poverty Strategy ⤵️

If the government chooses to keep the 2 child limit and spend money on vouchers and parenting programmes instead, child poverty will rise and this will be a conscious and deliberate political choice in defiance of all the evidence

We must become advocates of hope. Ambassadors of hope. Agents of hope. We must get the message across that it is possible to end child poverty. We are determined to eradicate it. We will work harder and harder to do so, and we will not give up. - Rt Hon Gordon Brown speaking at our 60th

You can’t cut child poverty without scrapping the two child benefit limit, and you can’t be a Labour government if you preside over rising child poverty. Me for @labourlist.bsky.social on the route to getting done what Labour must get done. labourlist.org/2025/11/gord...

Family hubs like Honeyhill in Peterborough offer vital early years support – but they face an uphill battle against deepening poverty.

Our new analysis shows how many children could be lifted out of poverty by 2029/30 if the two-child limit on Universal Credit would be abolished: England: 626,022 children Scotland: 51,036 children Wales: 54,722 children NI: 9,791 children #EndChildPoverty