A quick guide to...the new child poverty figures expected on Tuesday
Next week sees the publication of probably the last set of official child poverty figures - for 2012-13 - before the 2015 general election.Here’s a quick guide to what we should expect and what it all...
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Our programme for the 2015 government
Whoever wins on May 7 will be confronted by a child poverty crisis. That’s why CPAG today publishes its Programme for Government, a document setting out what the next Government must do to put the UK...
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Benefits Street - where's the reality?
It’s back. Tonight sees the return of Benefits Street on TV screens. Series 2 focuses on Kingston Road on the Tilery Estate in Stockton-On-Tees. Channel 4’s promotional blurb claims: ‘Benefit Street...
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When Prime Ministers attack...
A few weeks away from marking a decade as his party’s leader, this week David Cameron had the benefit of not one, but two former Prime Ministers warning him over his poverty and inequality legacy.read...
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When will the key provisions of the Welfare Reform and Work Act come into force?
The Welfare Reform and Work Act received Royal Assent last week. Now it’s here, when do its key provisions come into force?read more
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How many children will Universal Credit lift out of poverty?
Just days after Iain Duncan Smith resigned as Work & Pensions Secretary, citing his unease with the Summer Budget’s cuts to Universal Credit, today the Government has published a written answer in...
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Why this week's child poverty figures help explain last's budget
For a Prime Minister who walked into Downing Street decrying the ‘burning injustice’ of poverty and contrasting the opportunities available to some children but not others, there was a disappointing...
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Why March really was miserable for child poverty
It’s been an awful month for UK child poverty but Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has published some rather questionable claims made about the way we measure and use child poverty...
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