The CPAG are pleased to be celebrating 60 years of support for children, but we believe the time is right to increase child benefit and pay it at the same rate for all children.
Our Make Child Benefit Count campaign is growing in strength and is now supported by 40 children's charities, pressure groups and trade unions including End Child Poverty, Save the Children, Citizens Advice, Barnardo's and the Pre-School Learning Alliance.
The beauty of child benefit is that it's simple, straightforward and effective. It 'follows the child' regardless of changing family circumstances or fluctuating incomes and gets straight through to the main parent or carer. There are no means tests or complicated forms to fill in and it only has to be claimed once in a child's lifetime. It reaches more children living in poverty than any other benefit or tax credit.
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