Scrap the two child limit and benefit cap

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Children born a day apart are treated very differently - for lower income households if your 3rd child was born on 6th April 2017 you will be £3,200 worse off than if the birth was a day earlier.

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read Nick Ridpath Sarah Cattan Pedro Carneiro’s report, funded by Nuffield Foundation: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

Labour veterans call for return of Sure Start as new Institute for Fiscal Studies research reveals the early years programme generated significant improvements in the academic attainment of children from low-income backgrounds theguardian.com/education/2024… via Sally Weale and Pippa Crerar

Enjoyed chatting to Matthew Wright this morning and hearing about his realisation that the two child limit is unfair because it just makes life harder for kids - so true

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Hardly surprising that stealing from the mouths of babes via the 2-child limit is driving child poverty

But the more of these analyses confirm the worsening trends, the more the argument for change builds

Because in the end, the truth has power

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When will it end? New figures from End Child Poverty clearly show that the two-child limit is a policy which pushes single parents, and families with disabled children, into poverty – the very families that our benefit system should be helping. theguardian.com/society/2024/a… #2childlimit

Well done ⁦End Child Poverty⁩ ⁦Child Poverty Action Group⁩ for getting this back on the agenda! Party urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Thanks Channel 4 News for covering our stunt today to mark the 7th unhappy birthday of the two-child limit to benefit payments.

In this election year, all political parties serious about tackling child poverty must commit to scrapping this sibling tax.

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Tomorrow is the 7th birthday of the 2 child limit to benefit payments. This cruel policy pushes children into poverty and must be scrapped.

Alongside our coalition partners, we took this message to Department for Work and Pensions in a way that can't even ignored. A giant unhappy birthday card.

Tomorrow is the 7th birthday of the 2 child limit to benefit payments. This cruel policy pushes families into poverty and must be scrapped.

We took this message to Department for Work and Pensions in a way that can't even ignored. A giant unhappy birthday card.

📅 Today marks an unhappy birthday...
❌ The 7th anniversary of the two-child limit in Universal Credit.
📣 As proud @endchildpoverty coalition members, we have a message for Department for Work and Pensions
⏰ It’s time to scrap this unfair sibling tax because #AllKidsCount

Since you came into the world you've pulled hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. Like all children, we love to celebrate birthdays, but we will never support yours. The two-child limit to benefit payments should not last for another year.

7 years of the two-child limit.

What does the policy mean?

'... families are struggling. Always having to say “not today” to the youngest child. It affects my mental health a lot. I normally have the kids’ leftovers... the reality is there is nothing.'

End Child Poverty

Tomorrow is an unhappy birthday, 7 years since the start of the two-child limit to benefit payments

We love birthdays 🎂 but this isn't one to celebrate 😔 today we are taking this message to Department for Work and Pensions

All political parties must pledge to scrap this Sibling Tax

#AllKidsCount

On this day 14 years ago, the Child Poverty Act was established with a goal of eradicating child poverty by 2020.

However in 2016 the Act was abolished under a new UK Government and the targets were abandoned.

Today, one in four children live in poverty in the UK
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First on the list of ambitions in this important new report:

'Every child grows up in a family who has what they need to support them and no child grows up in poverty.'

#TheBigAmbition

Following shocking statistics on rising poverty levels at the end of last week, one young person's testimony leads tomorrow's The Journal #TomorrowsPapersToday

Read online: cityam.com/the-notebook-h…

This iceberg of UK child poverty is constantly overlooked — @ft long read here by me and Amy Borrett explaining what’s going on

How the UK is falling behind on tackling child poverty on.ft.com/4cs9bTj