The study found that 23 percent of families with three children and 26 percent of families with four or more children experienced food insecurity in June, compared to 17 percent of households with one or two children and 12 percent of households without children.
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer makes the case for scrapping the two child benefit cap, rent controls, and council house building
Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 300,000 children out of poverty
“Of the 1.6 million children in households affected by the policy, 52% of children were in households with three children, 29% in households with four children, and 19% are in households with five or more children.”
Almost 4 million people experienced destitution in 2022 – more than double the 2017 figure, including 1 million children and 2.4 million people with a disability or limiting health condition.
Two thirds of Generation Rent supporters who didn’t move home in 2023 were asked to pay a higher rent last year.
Political parties stigmatise people for claiming welfare support but pay no attention of the spiralling cost of corporate welfare which is enriching shareholders and company executives.
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has however set out 4 immediate steps that can be taken that will lift at least a million children out of poverty
“I am proud the Liberal Democrats have the most ambitious plan for free school meals of any party, which would save parents money and transform the future for millions of children.” – Ed Davey.
Civil rights and the rule of law have been eroded
