Rather than helping the families in greatest need, the policy punishes them.
- Professor of Social Policy, University of York
With 17% of children living in poverty in the UK, the government wants to change the way it’s defined.
Large study reveals how children rate their happiness and what they’re most dissatisfied with.
Children have suffered the most as the effects of the global financial crisis have been felt in the Western world, a report from children’s charity UNICEF has found. And it is children that will suffer…
In the early morning of the day after the Scottish Referendum, David Cameron stood on the steps of 10 Downing Street and pledged devolve further powers to Scotland, including income tax powers and “welfare…
Ed Balls has kicked off the annual Labour conference in Manchester with an ill-judged announcement that his party would increase child benefits by just 1% a year until 2017 if elected to government next…
The largest study of poverty ever conducted in the UK has laid out the dire state of British deprivation – and seriously undercut the government’s claim to be lifting people out of poverty through work…
The swingeing report of the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission that the Child Poverty Act 2010 targets for 2020 cannot be met is no surprise. The commission was responding to the government’s…
The children of this country owe a debt of gratitude to Malcolm Wicks, who died last year. If you have ever benefited from child benefit, you have him to thank. While Wicks was dying he wrote a memoir…
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