The move is one of a series of recommendations from a report, ‘We can solve poverty in the UK’, by the independent charity that calls for a radical overhaul of the childcare system, as a means of solving poverty in a generation by 2030.
The JRF says that over the past four years it has drawn on evidence and research to come up with the plan.
It says the Government should raise taxes on the wealthiest to provide an extra £15 billion a year to raise benefits and invest in housing and childcare for families on low-incomes.
The report calls for a new ‘long term deal’ to solve poverty – between governments, business and the public -, so that the first cohort of ‘Brexit children’ starting school this Autumn grow up and enter adult life in a UK that is prosperous and poverty-free.
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