Four and a half million children are growing up without basic necessities in the UK.
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The controversial policy was a product of the UK’s austerity period.
The two child limit and benefit cap leave many families living with extreme financial insecurity.
If the government is serious about tackling child poverty, their policy choices need to include the abolition of the two-child limit on benefits.
Social security policies have long been used as part of political strategising.
Many parents we spoke to had resorted to using foodbanks or had cut back on food spending.
Many of the measures already implemented to reduce government spending have actually pushed people further away from the labour market.
It may have been small but it’s unusual for a government to face rebellion on the contents of its king’s speech.
The two-child limit urgently needs to go – the future of the UK’s children depend on it.
Rather than helping the families in greatest need, the policy punishes them.
Governmental support is failing the country’s most vulnerable households. Politicians need to act now.
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