Children’s commissioners urge UK government to scrap two-child limit for benefits

Children's commissioners of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland say policy breaches human rights

The children's commissioners of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have written to the UK government calling on it to scrap the controversial two-child limit restricting the amount that larger families can receive in social security benefits.

In the joint letter to the work and pensions secretary, Therese Coffey, the three commissioners - respectively Sally Holland, Bruce Adamson and Koulla Yiasouma - argue the policy is a clear breach of children's human rights".