CPAG has called on the Government to invest in families and end the benefits freeze in the autumn budget to help ordinary families with children meet rising costs.
The group’s annual ‘Cost of a Child’ report, written by Loughborough University’s Donald Hirsch, says inflation will drive the cost of a child up by 12 per cent in 2019 compared to 2012, while the benefits freeze will prevent more parents from being able to meet basic family costs.
The study found the freeze, first implemented in 2016, means a four per cent rise in the national living wage this year has not prevented a growing gap between income and costs.
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