Child Poverty Action Group
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Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Citizens Advice Scotland
about 6 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the UK government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential. š§µ(1/2)
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Child Poverty Action Group
Engender
about 11 hours ago
Today we've joined over 100 organisations in calling for the UK government to fully scrap the cruel two-child limit. We've waited long enough. Acting swiftly to support women & their families impacted by the limit is crucial. Find out more & read the letter here:
cpag.org.uk/news/107-org...
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Child Poverty Action Group
rightsnet
about 12 hours ago
More than 100 organisations warn the government against āhalf-measuresā on the two-child limit
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/68876
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Child Poverty Action Group
National Housing Federation
about 11 hours ago
No child should have to experience poverty. Yet, it's the reality for 4.5 million children in the UK. That's why weāve joined over 100 others in calling on the government to scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. Read more below.
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Child Poverty Action Group
about 13 hours ago
More than 100 organisations join together to urge the Government to scrap the two-child limit in full, rather than amend it | Nursery World
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More than 100 organisations join together to urge the Government to scrap the two-child limit in full, rather than amend it - Nursery World
More than 100 organisations representing anti-poverty charities, teachers, doctors, social workers and health visitors have signed a letter urging the Government to scrap the two-child limit in full rather than introduce āhalf measuresā.
https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/news/more-than-100-organisations-join-together-to-urge-the-government-to-scrap-the-two-child-limit-in-full-rather-than-amend-it
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Child Poverty Action Group
CELCIS
about 13 hours ago
Every child deserves the best start in life. We continue to stand with organisations across the UK urging the government to scrap the two-child limit.
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Child Poverty Action Group
NGA For Schools & Trusts
about 13 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ organisations calling on the government to scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life; ending this policy is key to tackling poverty and supporting schools to help children thrive. Find out why & read moreš
www.nga.org.uk/news-views/d...
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Child Poverty Action Group
Early Education and Childcare Coalition
about 19 hours ago
Weāve joined more than 100 organisations in calling on the government to scrap the two-child limit in full. Every child deserves the best start in life, yet this policy is pushing too many families into hardship. Read more here:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
@cpaguk.bsky.social
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Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
āAbolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of childrenās lives on a path to a brighter futureā, major organisations say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-labour-scrap-budget-poverty-b2862746.html
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Child Poverty Action Group
Impetus
about 19 hours ago
Our vision is for a society where all young people, regardless of background, can thrive in school, work and life. Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for govt to fully scrap the two-child limit, to deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities & in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Centre for Young Lives
about 18 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Resolve Poverty
about 18 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Praxis, for migrants and refugees
about 17 hours ago
Today we joined over 100+ organisations calling on the Government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the same chance to thrive, no matter their background.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
āAbolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of childrenās lives on a path to a brighter futureā, major organisations say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-labour-scrap-budget-poverty-b2862746.html
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Child Poverty Action Group
Institute of Health Visiting
about 17 hours ago
iHV joins over 100 others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential. Every child deserves the best start in life.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Katie Schmuecker
about 17 hours ago
@jrf-uk.bsky.social
has joined 100+ others to call on the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. Fully scrapping the two-child will deliver a decisive shift in child poverty, boosting childrenās opportunities and the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust)
about 16 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
National Education Union
about 15 hours ago
The NEU is proud to stand alongside 100+ organisations in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By scrapping the limit the government can deliver a shift in childrenās opportunities and the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Friends, Families and Travellers
about 14 hours ago
Weāve joined
@cpaguk.bsky.social
and 100+ others in calling for the government to scrap the two-child limit. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential. More:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Child Poverty Action Group
Faculty of Public Health
about 14 hours ago
The Faculty of Public Health has joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit in full to turn the tide on child poverty. Read more
cpag.org.uk/news/letter-...
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Letter warning government against 'half-measures' on two-child limit
As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They d...
https://cpag.org.uk/news/letter-warning-government-against-half-measures-two-child-limit
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Child Poverty Action Group
Barnardo's
about 14 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ organisations urging the government to scrap the two-child limit. It drives child poverty. āItās our moral duty to work towards eliminating child poverty in this country," said our CEO,
@lynnanneperry.bsky.social
Learn more here:
brnw.ch/21wXq4j
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Government Urged to Lift Two-Child Benefits Limit
More than 100 organisations -Ā including those representing doctors, teachers, social workers, and anti-poverty charities - have urged the government to scrap the policy in full.
https://brnw.ch/21wXq4j
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Child Poverty Action Group
Save the Children UK
about 14 hours ago
We're proud to sign this letter and join 100+ other organisations in calling for the UK Government to fully scrap the two-child limit. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Women's Budget Group
about 14 hours ago
Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the gov to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the gov can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
āAbolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of childrenās lives on a path to a brighter futureā, major organisations say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-labour-scrap-budget-poverty-b2862746.html
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Child Poverty Action Group
The Sutton Trust
about 14 hours ago
ā Weāre proud to have joined
@cpaguk.bsky.social
and 100+ others in signing a letter calling for the Government to fully scrap the two-child limit. This move would ensure Govt can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities and in the UK's potential.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
āAbolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of childrenās lives on a path to a brighter futureā, major organisations say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-labour-scrap-budget-poverty-b2862746.html
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Organisations representing doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers and health visitors, as well as housing experts and anti-poverty charities, all agree that the government should abolish the two-child limit in full to turn the tide on child poverty.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l...
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BBC News - Government Urged to Lift Two-Child Benefits Limit
The Chancellor has suggested she favours removing limits on benefits linked to family size
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/l0057mp2
about 14 hours ago
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Child Poverty Action Group
Teach First
about 15 hours ago
Weāre proud to stand with the many organisations urging the government to scrap the two-child limit. Right now, 4.5 million children are being denied the chance to thrive. Itās time to end the poverty holding them back from reaching their full potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
National Children's Bureau
about 17 hours ago
We're proud to be one of the organisations calling on the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. 4.5m children are being denied the opportunity to thrive. We urgently need to end the poverty which blights childhoods and holds our children back in so many ways.
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Child Poverty Action Group
The Children's Society
about 17 hours ago
Every child deserves the best start in life. Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit to turn the tide on child poverty.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Independent Food Aid Network
about 17 hours ago
Weāve joined
@cpaguk.bsky.social
& 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Turn2us
about 17 hours ago
Organisations representing doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers and health visitors, as well as housing experts and anti-poverty charities, all agree that the government should abolish the two-child limit in full to turn the tide on child poverty.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Aberlour Children's Charity
about 16 hours ago
We're proud to sign this letter and continue to support calls to scrap the 2-child limit. It's the first and most direct way we can begin to reduce child poverty. We urge Keir Starmer to do the right thing.
#EndChildPoverty
@cpaguk.bsky.social
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Child Poverty Action Group
Single Parent Rights
about 19 hours ago
Weāve joined more than 100 organisations in calling on the government to scrap the two-child limit in full. Every child deserves the best start in life, yet this policy is pushing too many families into hardship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
@cpaguk.bsky.social
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Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
āAbolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of childrenās lives on a path to a brighter futureā, major organisations say
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-labour-scrap-budget-poverty-b2862746.html
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Child Poverty Action Group
Fairness Foundation
about 18 hours ago
Proud to have joined over 100 other organisations in calling on the government to lift the unfair two-child limit š
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Weāve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in childrenās opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
about 18 hours ago
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The two-child limit is the biggest driver of rising child poverty & scrapping it in full is the right thing to do. All children are equally deserving of a good childhood and abolishing this cruel policy would give millions more kids a better start in life.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget
Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/10/rachel-reeves-signals-plan-remove-two-child-benefit-cap-budget
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Child Poverty Action Group
Prof Ruth Patrick
3 days ago
Itās just over two weeks now till the budget. Every night, parents in poverty are lying in bed, unable to sleep, worrying about how to pay essential bills. This can and must be changed. Ending the two-child limit & benefit cap is the right (indeed only) place to start
m.youtube.com/watch?v=94fq...
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Lying awake
YouTube video by Aaron Reeves
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=94fqUaNQg2U&t=19s&pp=2AETkAIB0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
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'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.
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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
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We were delighted that Gordon Brown addressed our 60th anniversary event yesterday. In his speech, he said: 'One group of people who have suffered the biggest cut in living standards is the poorest families in our country, partly because of the two-child rule.' 1/2
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Child Poverty Action Group
Prof Ruth Patrick
7 days ago
Only right that on the occasion of
@cpaguk.bsky.social
60th birthday, I use today's post to share a typically forthright call from CPAG's Chief Executive Alison Garnham for the Government to scrap the two-child limit in full, published in
@labourlist.bsky.social
labourlist.org/2025/11/abol...
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'Labour must abolish the two child limit in full and with pride' - LabourList
Labour should abolish the two child benefit cap and do so with pride write Alison Garnham of Child Poverty Action Group.
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/abolish-the-two-child-limit-with-pride/
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109 kids are falling into poverty every day because of the two-child limit. The government must scrap it for all children. Please share.
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Weāre turning 60! Join our live broadcast marking 60 years of Child Poverty Action Group, featuring keynote speaker Rt Hon Gordon Brown. š Thursday 6 November ā°9:45ā11:45 am (online via Zoom) Register for your free place:
cpag.org.uk/60years
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60 years of Child Poverty Action Group
Join us for a special online event marking 60 years of Child Poverty Action Group, with keynote speaker Rt Hon Gordon Brown.
https://cpag.org.uk/60years
9 days ago
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full would be 'a fresh, cost-effective, and morally unambiguous start to making the days better and the future brighter for kids up and down the country.'
labourlist.org/2025/11/abol...
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'Labour must abolish the two child limit in full and with pride' - LabourList
Labour should abolish the two child benefit cap and do so with pride write Alison Garnham of Child Poverty Action Group.
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/abolish-the-two-child-limit-with-pride/
9 days ago
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Scrapping the two-child limit in full is the most cost-effective way to reduce the number of children living in poverty, pound for pound. So when the chancellor is facing difficult decisions, it doesnāt make sense to implement a less efficient half-measure.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/rach...
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Rachel Reeves canāt build a fair economy on hungry children | LBC
The only way the Government will reduce child poverty is to scrap the two-child benefit cap, writes Alison Garnham.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/rachel-reeves-child-poverty-budget-opinion-5HjdGH5_2/
10 days ago
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Child Poverty Action Group
Changing Realities
13 days ago
On 23rd October, we headed to a Child Poverty Strategy roundtable hosted by Baroness Lister at the HoL. Our participants delivered powerful testimonies & their speech can be read hereš£:
changingrealities.org/writings/cha...
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The core of our work has not changed, but we have. We have spent, in some cases, years together, uplifting our voices and learning how to be part of a movement for change, and we are proud to be here toĀ representĀ our work and the people within.
https://changingrealities.org/writings/changing-realities-at-the-house-of-lords-the-child-poverty-strategy
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Child Poverty Action Group
National Children's Bureau
13 days ago
4.5 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK, and that figure is rising. Weāre joining
@bigissue.com
and 65 other signatories in an open letter urging the government to set child poverty targets in the upcoming child poverty strategy. Read more
@theguardian.com
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Child Poverty Action Group
Sam Freedman
14 days ago
New post out: "The worst social policy ever" Today we have a guest post from
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on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP. Lots of data but also powerful testimony. (Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/the-worst-social-policy-ever?r=72szy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Child Poverty Action Group
Resolution Foundation
14 days ago
The Government should act quickly to lift the two-child limit on benefits. Any further delay has significant human consequences, with more and more children captured by the policy every year. Read 'No half measures' š
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Our head of policy Sophie Howes spoke to the Commons Treasury Committee yesterday about why social security is so important for addressing child poverty.
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Child Poverty Action Group
Aaron Reeves
15 days ago
The two child limit and benefit cap are "economically inefficient" because [they] "undermine public health, early years development and educational outcomes.... This in turn increases pressure on local services, including schools, health and housing."
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
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Group of 40 economists & academics tell Chancellor ending two-child benefit cap will help grow economy | LBC
With less than a month to go before the Budget, the group have written to Rachel Reeves to warn that more than half of larger families could fall into poverty as a direct result of the cap.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/group-of-40-economists-and-academics-tell-chancellor-ending-two-child-benefit-ca-5HjdG6F_2/
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Child Poverty Action Group
Ilona Pinter š§”
24 days ago
The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for
@cpaguk.bsky.social
Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education
cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...
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Learning is an essential need
Recent public narratives around asylum-seeking have focused on mostly men arriving by small boats and staying in Home Office commissioned hotels. However, what is the experience of the children and fa...
https://cpag.org.uk/news/learning-essential-need
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Child Poverty Action Group
Jonathan Portes
15 days ago
"We would all be better off if child poverty was reduced. And the most efficient, the quickest, the easiest, and the most politically, morally and socially justified way of doing that would be to lift the cap. We would all be better off as a consequence of that."
www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...
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Group of 40 economists & academics tell Chancellor ending two-child benefit cap will help grow economy | LBC
With less than a month to go before the Budget, the group have written to Rachel Reeves to warn that more than half of larger families could fall into poverty as a direct result of the cap.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/group-of-40-economists-and-academics-tell-chancellor-ending-two-child-benefit-ca-5HjdG6F_2/
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