Article 71Z4C What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy?

What is in the UK government’s child poverty strategy?

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Rowena Mason Whitehall editor
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Several elements had already been announced, including lifting the two-child benefit cap and increasing free school meals

Keir Starmer has hailed his government's plan to tackle child poverty as a moral mission", with a promise to lift half a million children out of hardship.

It is the first such document in more than a decade and was described by the Resolution Foundation thinktank as a sea change" in the government's approach to children in poverty.

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