Nursery World - Next government urged to scrap two-child benefit cap and work towards halving child poverty

A call to abolish the two-child benefit cap, establish a No.10 Poverty Unit and expand free school meals to all families in receipt of universal credit, form part of a ten-point plan for the next government to boost children’s life chances.

The Centre for Young Lives has published its ten-point plan for the next government, PHOTO: Adobe Stock

The Centre for Young Lives has published a plan for the next Government outlining what it believes are priorities for the next government to tackle the biggest challenges facing children in the UK, problems which it says have had ‘little air-time during the General Election campaign’.

The priorities include:

Anne Longfield, executive chair of the Centre for Young Lives, said, ‘In over four decades of working and campaigning to improve support and help for children and families, I can’t remember a less impressive Parliament than the one which has just dissolved. Half-hearted reforms to services and sticking plaster investment have failed to meet the scale of the challenges brought about by austerity, the Covid pandemic, and the cost of living crisis.

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