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Lifting the two-child benefit cap is set to be the top recommendation of Keir Starmer’s child poverty taskforce

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FIRST Minister John Swinney has announced an expansion of the integrated poverty support programme in Scotland ...

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said their findings did not mean the policy has no wider consequences, including on health and later wellbeing.

IFS say the current policy currently has ‘no adverse impact on children’s development’

Uzbekistan has made poverty reduction a state priority, launching a nationwide programme focused on jobs, social protection, and mahalla-level action. Since 2016, 7.5mn people have escaped poverty. With €30bn invested in 2024, the country aims to eradicate absolute poverty by 2030.

Letters: Readers respond to articles about rising child poverty in Britain, and the education secretary’s criticism that the two-child benefit cap has ‘punished and pushed children into hardship’

ON THE GROUND: Marking Fairtrade Fortnight, tea farmers in Kenya – a country which provides around half of the tea we drink in the UK – tell Nick Ferris that they are increasingly threatened by climate change and chronic poverty

Energy firm Ovo has urged the Government and industry to work together to find a ‘better way’ of identifying customers in need.

Sebabatso Mosamo, an Associated Press visual journalist in South Africa who documented elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and her country’s struggle with poverty and violence, has died

A father-of-three, who received the gift of a Christmas shoebox as a child, is recreating the gesture for other children affected by poverty.