The Department for Education (DfE) has published findings from the second wave of the Children of the 2020s longitudinal study in England, measuring the circumstances and outcomes of children and their families. The...
Briefing: Inequality and the Child Poverty Strategy – The Equality Trust
On 13 January 2026, the Co-Executive Director Priya Sahni-Nicholas spoke at Public Policy Exchange’s event to discuss the recently published Child Poverty Strategy, Tackling Child Poverty: Improving Welfare, Security...
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
More than 60% of parents who had their child benefit stopped by HMRC using incorrect Home Office travel data were not fraudulently claiming the support from abroad, it has emerged. Read the full article on this link...
Everything you need to know about Labour’s child poverty strategy
With a record 4.5 million children in the UK living in poverty, the Labour government has been under pressure to act quickly and lift families across the country out of hardship. And now, the government’s long...
The three essential elements to turn child poverty ambitions into effective practice
The government’s Child Poverty Strategy, Our Children, Our Future published last week, makes several welcome commitments, not least the abolition of the two-child limit and strengthened support for families in temporary...
Child poverty
The UK government has announced the launch of a new strategy for reducing child poverty. The strategy brings together information about the action that the government has already taken, alongside new measures to...
