US EditionCalls to scrap two-child benefit cap over child poverty link
- An analysis associated with the End Child Poverty Coalition revealed that in 2023-24, approximately 120,600 children in the North East were living in poverty.
- The analysis linked high child poverty rates across two-thirds of UK constituencies to the 2017 two-child universal credit limit policy.
- Research showed nine out of 10 constituencies in the North East, West Midlands, and Wales have poverty rates above one in four children, with areas like Birmingham Ladywood and Bradford West especially affected.
- Dan Paskins and campaigners urged 'bold action' to scrap the £3.5 billion two-child benefit cap ahead of the Chancellor’s spending review this month.
- The government committed to releasing a comprehensive, fully-funded plan addressing child poverty before the end of the year, while continuing efforts to assist low-income families and reviewing the possibility of removing the two-child universal credit limit.
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Starmer doesn't rule out scrapping two-child benefit cap after free school meals expansion
The expansion of free school meals is a "down payment" on the plan to lift children out of poverty, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he did not rule out scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Evening Standard
perspectivemedia.comPM sidesteps future of two-child benefit cap amid ‘chaos, chaos, chaos’ claims
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch accused Sir Keir Starmer of making ‘U-turn after U-turn’.
Rachel Reeves warned child poverty will be higher at next election unless one choice is made - The Mirror
Eleven charities, including Citizens Advice, Save the Children UK, and Trussell, warn that the two-child limit has pulled 37,000 children into poverty since Labour took office
David Willetts: Tories, babies and the conundrum of how you pay for more of them
David Willetts is President of the Resolution Foundation and is a member of the House of Lords. The past week has seen ConservativeHome graced by a piece from Michael Ashcroft warning of ‘baby deserts’ and a column from Harry Phibbs backing the two child cap on benefits. Are the two issues linked? Should they be? First, a gentle warning. Any men of a certain age and political disposition telling women to have more babies doesn’t really work. Nig…
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