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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Families to be offered help to leave temporary accommodation under UK child poverty strategy

A young mother holds her baby and is silhouetted against a window
The measures will stop mothers with newborn babies being discharged to bed and breakfast hostels or other unsuitable housing. Photograph: Mike Abrahams/Alamy

Families will be offered help to get out of temporary accommodation and support with childcare as part of the government’s delayed child poverty strategy, with ministers saying the entire package will lift more than half a million children out of poverty.

The new proposals in a strategy that was originally due to come out in the spring are in addition to the abolition of the two-child limit for some benefits, which will have the greatest impact on poverty, at a cost of £3bn during this parliament.

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