(MENAFN- The Conversation) The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece. What's sobering is how ...

Figures from the Department of State and Pensions (DWP) show 25 percent of children in the UK in 2022-23 were living in absolute poverty, up from 23.8 percent the previous year. This is the largest ...

MILLIONS of pounds that had been earmarked to offset the two-child benefit cap in Scotland will now be spent on tackling ...

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused Nigel Farage of being 'all over the place' on the two child benefit limit as the Reform ...

The proposed Scottish child payment increase “falls far short” of eradicating child poverty, the director of a child poverty ...

A misleading comparison of child poverty rates across Nordic countries and the UK has been made on social media by using incorrect and out-of-date data. A Sept. 11 post, opens new tab titled “Child ...

The Labour government in November 2025 confirmed it will do away with the cap for benefits and that the measure will come ...

In a stark admission on 1 September 2025, UK Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said she was 'ashamed' of soaring child poverty levels, now affecting 4.5 million children. Her remarks come as ...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ plan to slash £15 billion in public spending in the Labour government’s Spring Statement has already thrown tens of thousands of children deeper into poverty. The cuts ...

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This blog is now closed, you can read more of our UK political coverage here Readers may be aware, going into the weekend, that Edinburgh airport had to temporarily suspend flights this morning due to ...