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Our research shows the harm the two-child limit on benefits is doing. Only scrapping it can end this

Since the UK Labour government took office in summer 2024, calls have intensified to scrap both the “two-child limit” – which restricts support for children through universal credit to two children – and the overall benefit cap. With Chancellor Rachel Reeves resisting this pressure as she tries to manage deteriorating…

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UK Government warned not to 'push more families into hardship', at poverty summit

THE UK Government has been warned not to “push even more families into hardship” by imposing austerity cuts, ahead of a poverty summit at…

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Scottish policies will 'keep child poverty levels well below the rest of the UK'

Scottish Government policies will “keep child poverty levels well below the rest of the UK”, new analysis has found ...

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‘One in 10 parents in poverty say their child has been bullied for being poor’

The Government is expected to publish its child poverty strategy this spring.

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Reeves’s dilemma: break your tax pledges or cast Labour adrift from its principles

After the welfare cuts backlash the chancellor is being warned about how she wields the scalpel in her spring statement

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves 'rejects' data showing 'everyone is getting poorer' under Labour

RACHEL Reeves has rejected data from a leading poverty charity which suggests the average family could be £1400 a year worse off by the end of the…

The National (Scotland)

The Observer view on the spring statement: cutting spending is not the only option, chancellor

Further reductions can only increase disability and child poverty, and further undermine public services

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Plaid Cymru leader takes inspiration from Scotland with child payment pledge

Plaid Cymru will launch a “transformational” payment to tackle the “national stain” of child poverty if it leads the next Welsh government,…

The National (Scotland)

Plaid leader pledges to launch payments for poor children

Rhun ap Iorwerth said child poverty ‘remains a national stain’ with children ‘not even afforded the decency of good health and the bare essentials’.

Evening Standard

Police investigating alleged online threats to third Sydney mosque – as it happened

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Different pace and priorities separate Texas Senate and House on school vouchers

The gaps over eligibility and on spending levels are narrower than the fundamental differences of the previous session.

The Texas Tribune

Labour's benefits cuts risk disabled people turning to food banks, charity warns

Labour's "cruel" benefits cuts risk disabled people being forced to turn to food banks, an anti-poverty charity has warned ...

The National (Scotland)

Actor Brian Cox asks Government to act on poverty after living ‘brutal reality’

The Succession actor has backed Action For Children’s call for the Government to lift more than one million children out of poverty.

Evening Standard

Scrapping two-child benefit cap could lift 600,000 children out of poverty in five years, analysis finds

Lifting two-child benefit cap ‘single most cost-effective policy’ for government, charity finds

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Fears Labour's disability benefits cut to be 'really quite severe' for Scotland

The UK Government has come under fire for changes to the welfare system with Scotland’s Social Justice Secretary warning of the “devastating…

Evening Standard

Welfare reforms will be ‘devastating’ for disabled, Shirley-Anne Somerville says

The Scottish Social Justice Secretary spoke out after the UK Government set out a series of reforms to the welfare system.

The Guardian - UK

Labour is gaslighting disabled people – and that should terrify us all

The messaging that suggests poverty is caused by low aspiration and that disability is a choice could have come straight from the Conservatives’ playbook, writes Zoe Williams

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Voices: Is Labour’s welfare reform going too far – or is it necessary to balance the books? Join The Independent Debate

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Labour’s reforms to benefits aim to reduce economic inactivity and encourage work, but critics warn they could push vulnerable people further into poverty

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Rescuing Nigeria: how to break the cycle of decline and bring progress

Nigeria has abundant human and natural resources but remains mired in underdevelopment. There are high levels of poverty, corruption, unemployment and inequality. The country is currently witnessing a rise in ethnic militias and terrorism, adding to the threats posed by armed herdsmen’s deadly clashes with rural communities over land.

The Guardian - UK

How far will Starmer risk pushing Labour MPs to swallow welfare cuts?

Many MPs will feel that pushing people in to poverty to balance the books is not what they came into politics to do

The Guardian - UK

Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss

Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention

The Guardian - UK

Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore poverty

Euronews

CommonEn: A Greek model for tackling energy poverty

In the Greek city of Ioannina, the CommonEn energy community provides a sustainable, renewable-powered solution to energy poverty.

The Independent UK

Calls grow for households to get refunds after energy companies pocket £4bn excess profits

Campaigners urge Ofgem to refund UK households after energy network companies ‘profit from high inflation’

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer’s contempt for those on benefits is fuelled by tired stereotype

OKAY, Starmer, what have you got for us today? The benefits system is the “worst of all worlds”?

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