Encouraged, not least by the emphasis on the early years. But if there’s a laser focus poverty, we need a commitment to a child poverty strategy - incl scrapping the 2 child limit - to deliver it. That way we’ll give *all* children & young people the opportunity they deserve

Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi families are more likely to live in households with 3+ children, so are disproportionately impacted by the two-child limit Scrapping it would be an effective way to reduce the shocking levels of child poverty in the UK theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

A child poverty strategy could be life-changing for families in the UK. If Keir Starmer wants to ‘drive down levels of child poverty’, Labour need robust targets and dedicated funding, starting with a commitment to #ScrapTheSiblingTax.

We asked people whether they thought people’s benefits should be cut (by choosing not to do the usual annual increase by the amount families are owed) in order to pay for tax cuts. A *huge* 71% said they wanted benefits to be protected. More here ➡️ savethechildren.org.uk/blogs/2023/the…

Labour should introduce a new Child Poverty Act within 100 days of winning power. Legally binding targets and a Cabinet minister dedicated to the cause would underpin their promised child poverty strategy and bring numbers down. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

‘The last Labour government lifted 1 million children out of poverty… We will do it again’ Great speech from the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves at our Save the Children UK reception.

Our Parent Champions are back in Westminster to discuss how we can build better systems to overcome barriers to work and opportunity, guarantee security, and uphold dignity

New NEF analysis by Sam Tims shows that people on Universal Credit could be over £600 worse off next year, even if benefits are uprated in line with today's inflation rates, because of the end of the cost of living payments Coverage in the The Independent independent.co.uk/business/scrap…

It is right that Conservative MPs are calling on the Chancellor to uprate benefits in line with inflation. The #CostOfLivingCrisis is not easing for low-income families. The Chancellor must increase benefits at least in line with inflation. ft.com/content/0f56c7…

The cruel #2ChildLimit policy is one of the 'biggest drivers' of child poverty in the UK. New data from the End Child Poverty Coalition shows the correlation between the policy and #ChildPoverty Read the full Financial Times article 👉 on.ft.com/3Gu7ZzW Peter Foster

You’ll have missed this during the Christmas -> New Year nothingness, but here’s an idea from those of us at Save the Children UK (which others have dabbled with before). What not take inspo from the pensions triple lock and provide our children with more protection? 🧵

Just so obvious it hurts. It’s damn stressful when you don’t have enough £. Financial stress doesn’t ‘incentivise’ anyone, it just makes doing anything 500 times harder.