LONDON: March 26, 2025
Dan Paskins, Executive Director of Policy, Advocacy & Campaigns at Save the Children UK said:
“The Chancellor’s Statement does nothing to meaningfully tackle child poverty. Whilst it is a relief that spending on the early years and schools will be protected, this was a fiscal moment where the UK Government should have shown clear intent on its ambition to drive down child poverty numbers - which currently stand at a staggering 4.3 million.
“If ministers do not take decisive action soon, this will be the first Labour Government ever to preside over a significant rise in child poverty.
“The promised Child Poverty Strategy due this Spring must include scrapping the two-child limit and the benefit cap. Doing so would lift 500,000 children out of poverty by the end of this Parliament.”