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End Child Poverty

This is how we fix Universal Credit
The basic rate of benefit support falls woefully short – Iain Porter, senior policy advisor at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, explains what needs to…
 • The Lead
Child poverty is racialised – we won't end the crisis until this is acknowledged
At the National Energy Action conference, fuel poverty’s human cost was clear. Those shaping policy must confront who is being hit hardest.
 • Natalie Morris and The Lead
Parents aren’t failing their children: the state is failing parents
Welsh baby bundles are welcome – but they won’t rebuild the village parents desperately need.
 • Natalie Morris and The Lead
How to help children in poverty this Christmas
From buying presents to funding local lifelines, here are six ways you can support children in poverty during the festive period
 • Ella Glover
The Lead Untangles: Does the new Child Poverty Strategy go far enough?
Many of the new policies are welcome – but critics say the plans lack ambition.
 • Ella Glover and The Lead
Labour has opened the door to ending child poverty, now they must walk through it
The announcement of the much-delayed child poverty strategy is welcome but four million children will still remain in poverty when it ends in 2029
 • Natalie Morris and The Lead
The Lead's budget verdict: technocratic tweaks to a broken system
Lifting the two-child benefit cap is welcome, but Rachel Reeves' tax and spend plans fall far short of the financial shake up this country needs
 • Zoe Grunewald and The Lead
The Lead in Conversation: "Kids are in poverty because adults are in poverty"
Former editor of The Big Issue in the north discusses the shameful crisis of child poverty and the regional disparities that are being driven by…
 • Natalie Morris and The Lead
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The North is watching and waiting for Rachel Reeves to act on child poverty
Former Editor of the Big Issue North, Kevin Gopal, looks at how families in the North of England are in dire need of help - and why the child poverty…
 • Kevin Gopal
Every number is a life: The child poverty crisis in stats
Millions of children in the UK are going without basic essentials – how we count them matters. Claire Miller drills into the numbers behind child…
The colour of poverty: Black and brown children are at the sharp end of the crisis
Policies to tackle child poverty that don’t acknowledge the impact of race are simply not going to cut it.
 • Natalie Morris and The Lead
Child poverty is a failure of the state and the economy it claims to safeguard
The government insists we cannot afford to lift children out of poverty, while those same children pay the price for political caution.
 • The Lead and Zoe Grunewald
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