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Two- child benefits policy led to only a small decline in fertility among those households directly affected so will increase child poverty , ... View article...

"Nearly 4,000 families have been hit by the cruel two-child tax credit limit, risking even greater levels of child poverty. "The welfare mitigation package ... View article...

The End Child Poverty Coalition has released new research which shows that more than 45000 children in Northern Ireland are part of affected ... View article...

Official statistics published in March showed child poverty hit record highs last year, with 4.33 million children living in households in relative ... View article...

... poverty . Some one in five children in the region are living in relative poverty , an Audit Office report found, while almost one in 10 households ... View article...

“Across the UK there are already signs that attainment gaps between advantaged and disadvantaged children are getting wider. “Every critical measure ... View article...

Set Brexit aside – here are the political issues you mustn't lose sight of in 2018 - In 2018 Britain will be on the cusp of a new era of child poverty . As universal credit, “two- child limit” tax credits and child benefit freezes set in, the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicts the next five years will see the number of children living in poverty soar to a staggering 5.2 million (or 37% of all children ).

Ending the rape clause and benefit cap could lift 15000 Scots out of poverty , says think tank - The independent progressive UK think tank has modelled the cost and effects of ending both the Benefit Cap and the Two- Child Limit (which features what is widely known as the 'Rape Clause') in Scotland, finding that doing so through local authority budgets and powers currently enjoyed would cost ...

Tory cuts will increase child poverty : Iain Duncan Smith, Tory minister for work and pensions, has again revealed the clear class warfare at the heart of the coalition government's policies. He wants to limit child benefit to two children for unemployed parents. The government's own figures ...