Time to reform child benefit
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- Wednesday, September 6, 2006 | Nursery World
By Kate Green, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) Sixty years ago, the first universal benefits for families with children were introduced. Paid in most cases directly to the mother, from 6 August 1946 family allowances formed a key plank of the post-war welfare state. 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.