Understanding how the cost of childcare is affecting low income families
The government is cutting the childcare support in the tax credit system. In response, Save the Children and Daycare Trust have launched a major consultation exercise aimed at understanding how the...
View ArticleChildcare and Universal Credit
The Government wants to make work pay and ensure work is a route out of poverty for families but many low income families are trapped; they can’t afford to work but they can’t afford not to work....
View ArticleChild poverty: Relative income poverty matters
The latest child poverty figures for 2010/11, due to be released on Thursday, are likely to show that almost 1million children have been lifted out of poverty since the late 1990s. Despite this...
View ArticleMyths about child poverty measurement
The Government launched their consultation on child poverty measurement last week. The consultation proposes a new ‘multi-dimensional’ composite measure of child poverty that captures the broad nature...
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