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Child Poverty Action Group is the leading charity campaigning for an end to child poverty in the UK.
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Stripping essential support from those families would be damaging to disabled people and risk undermining the government’s forthcoming child poverty strategy.
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The report recommends:
✅ Expanding FSM eligibility & raising income thresholds
✅Auto-enrolling eligible children for FSM
✅ Considering periods missing education, local area, ethnicity & language background alongside FSM/PP in research and policy uses
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But opportunities were missed to expand free school meals at lunchtime which support pupil wellbeing and tackle the root causes of poverty. A ‘child-centred government’ must prioritise these issues. 2/2
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This ambition must be realised through a bold child poverty strategy that strengthens family incomes and reduces the cost of going to school – which too often holds kids back.
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If the PM wants families to feel improvements in their living standards, the two-child limit must be scrapped when the government’s child poverty taskforce reports in spring.
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Read the research here: cpag.org.uk/news/cost-ch...
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We welcome the government’s ambition on child poverty but this budget played for time that far too many children and families can’t afford. The spending review next spring will have to deliver much more to make a significant difference for children in poverty.
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The Chancellor missed a golden chance to scrap the two-child limit, a policy that will pull 16,000 extra children into poverty by the time the government’s child poverty taskforce reports in spring.