Government urged to do more to end child poverty
On the tenth anniversary of Labour’s pledge to end child poverty, the Child Action Poverty Group (CPAG) has urged the government not to abandon the target in the face of…
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Number of children in temporary accommodation soars
The Liberal Democrats today published figures showing a 9 per cent increase in the number of children living in temporary housing this Christmas. Almost 88,000 children are living in temporary…
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Government accused of abandoning the poor
The promise to eradicate child poverty by 2020 looks set to be abandoned, according to the Child Poverty Action Group. Although Chancellor Alistair Darling repeated the government’s commitment yesterday, campaigners…
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18% rise in Scotland’s homeless children
Sixty children become homeless in Scotland every day, Shelter Scotland warns – the equivalent of 22,000 young people a year. This is an 18 per cent increase during the past…
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Demand for more aid for poorer families
Leaders of religious faiths, humanists and academics have written to Chancellor Alistair Darling demanding more action to improve the lives of children in poverty. There is a ‘moral imperative’ to…
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Poverty spreads to outer reaches of London
More people live in poverty in outer London than in inner London, new research has found. The study found that 54 per cent of Londoners with low incomes live in…
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No progress on Scottish child poverty
Progress in tacking child poverty in Scotland has stalled, with more than one in five children living in poverty. A Joseph Rowntree Foundation report found there had been no improvement…
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Britain should stop locking up child asylum seekers
England’s children’s commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green criticised the government’s policy of arresting children of failed asylum seekers and holding them in a detention centre before detention. He said that almost…
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Local housing allowance changes will discriminate
The government has decided to push ahead with its housing benefit reforms despite advisers fearing they will discriminate against thousands of families and black and minority ethnic households. The changes…
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New Bill shakes up rights to citizenship
The new Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill was published yesterday in Parliament. The Bill limits full access to benefits and social housing to citizens and permanent residents and any foreign…