Archived press releases – 2005

21.12.05
Children from across the country personally delivered a Christmas message to the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street today urging him to do more to end child poverty in the UK.

13.12.05
Research published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has "important messages" for the Work & Pensions Secretary John Hutton as he prepares his Green Paper on welfare reform.

05.12.05
CPAG has welcomed changes to the way the tax credits system will operate, announced in the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget Report today.

30.11.05
'Forty Voices Against Child Poverty' – the priorities and concerns of forty policymakers, commentators, frontline workers and families in the fight to end child poverty were published by a leading charity today.

25.11.05
The sharp rise in the cost of bringing up children makes a powerful case for higher child benefit and more affordable childcare.

23.11.05
Responding to John Hutton's comments about the Child Support Agency (CSA), Kate Green, said "John Hutton is right to make enforcement a top priority of the CSA review".

18.11.05
CPAG responds to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on the complexity of the benefits system.

17.11.05
Gordon Brown must make ending child poverty the centrepiece of his Pre-Budget Report on 5 December says CPAG.

16.11.05
CPAG has repeated its calls for the Child Support Agency (CSA) to be reformed, following comments by Tony Blair at Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon.

15.11.05
CPAG has responded to the Public Accounts Committee’s report into the running of the Social Fund published today.

09.11.05
CPAG has welcomed the Mayor of London’s Childcare Affordability Programme, the first phase of which will subsidise over 3,000 childcare places in nurseries across the capital.

08.11.05
CPAG has welcomed the publication of the Government’s Childcare Bill today.

08.11.05
Responding to David Cameron’s speech to the Centre for Policy Studies, CPAG says that Cameron & Davis “must back up rhetoric on poverty”.

02.11.05
Three leading charities have congratulated John Hutton on his appointment as the new Work & Pensions Secretary but joined forces to warn him to “tread very carefully” on welfare reform.

02.11.05
CPAG today expressed its regret at the resignation of Work & Pensions Secretary David Blunkett but insisted that work on the welfare reform Green Paper must continue.

27.10.05
CPAG today responded to Paymaster General Dawn Primarolo's announcement that from mid-November tax credit overpayments will not be clawed back until disputes with claimants have been resolved.

26.10.05
MPs are being urged to back plans aimed at ending the 'junk food' diets of local children and curbing the alarming rise in childhood obesity.

20.10.05
Three leading charities have joined forces to warn David Blunkett that there can be “no quick fixes” in his forthcoming welfare reform Green Paper.

17.10.05
On UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty CPAG has welcomed David Blunkett’s reaffirmed pledge to eradicate child poverty, but warned that his upcoming Welfare Reform Green Paper must not undermine progress towards that goal.

12.10.05
The tax credits system must be urgently reformed if public confidence in the system is to be restored.

05.10.05
Candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party have been challenged by CPAG to say what they would do to tackle poverty.

03.10.05
Tougher nutritional standards announced today for school meals in England have been welcomed by CPAG.

26.09.05
Gordon Brown's renewed commitment to end child poverty has been welcomed by a leading children's charity.

23.09.05
The Government is in danger of missing its own targets on eradicating child poverty unless it steps up its efforts, CPAG warned last night.

20.09.05
The Liberal Democrats should put ending child poverty at the centre of their policy review, a leading children's charity said today.

16.09.05
Responding to a think tank report, CPAG argues UK policy direction is right, but too slow.

16.09.05
CPAG today wrote to the Revenue threatening legal action unless they change the way they recover overpayments from tax credits claimants.

08.09.05
CPAG has echoed criticism of the Child Support Agency (CSA) by former welfare minister Frank Field.

08.09.05
Following publication of the Public Accounts Committee's report into the operation of the new tax credits system, CPAG has repeated its call for an amnesty where mistaken overpayments have been made and fraud is unproven.

07.09.05
Conservative Party proposals for a flat rate tax system must not leave the poorest worse off, a leading children's charity said today.

05.09.05
CPAG Scotland responds to Pru's Cost of Education Survey.

02.09.05
Four decades of advice for low income families in Britain will be marked by a national conference in London.

01.09.05
A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlights the need for more urgency in tackling inequality, according to CPAG.

20.07.05
The downrating and withdrawal of key benefits for families with disabled children is causing considerable fluctuations in incomes and high levels of stress and ill health, says a report launched today at the House of Commons.

15.07.05
New research published in CPAG's Poverty Journal demonstrates the damage done by poverty to mothers and their babies. One in five of all babies in the Millennium Cohort Study were living in poverty.

01.07.05
CPAG welcomed David Willetts MP's call for a 2020 vision of an open and socially mobile society but challenged Conservatives to commit the necessary funding to improve and secure the incomes of Britain's poorest children

22.06.05
CPAG restates the urgent need for an amnesty of tax credit overpayments

22.06.05
CPAG comments on two reports published by Citizens Advice and by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, both focusing on problems with the tax credit system

16.06.05
A report published today by the European Commissioner for Human Rights has made stinging attacks on the UK government's treatment of asylum seekers.

15.06.05
CPAG has today given its backing to a report, which calls for an overhaul of Council Tax Benefit (CTB)

01.06.05
Government figures released today show problems with the tax credits system continue

27.05.05
CPAG welcomes the Government's recognition of the problems that many families have experienced with the tax credit system

17.05.05
A test case, initiated by CPAG, has been successful in protecting children who give evidence to social security appeal tribunals.

17.05.05
Responding to the Queen's Speech, Kate Green said: 'Any changes to the benefit system must prioritise helping people facing disability and illness'

06.05.05
Government third term is 'real opportunity' says CPAG's Chief Executive, Kate Green OBE

13.04.05
CPAG welcomes Labour Party's continued commitment to abolishing child poverty

11.04.05
CPAG welcomes Conservative commitment to tackle child poverty

30.03.05
Data from first year of child tax credit shows policy can work, but further increases are needed to meet child poverty targets

21.03.05
'CPAG welcomes the Labour Party's children's manifesto, with a clear emphasis on reducing child poverty... We look forward now to hearing proposals for children and tackling child poverty from the other political parties.' said Kate Green OBE, the Chief Executive.

16.03.05
Response to the Budget : The commitment to continue to increase the child element in child tax credit in line with earnings is vital if the government is to stay on track to meet its child poverty target.

10.03.05
CPAG has called on the Chancellor to make child poverty the centrepiece of the Budget which will be delivered on Wednesday 16th March 2005.

08.03.05
Response to Fabian Society report LIFE CHANCES: What do the public really think about poverty?

01.03.05
Forty years on from its inaugural meeting in East London, CPAG challenges every Member of Parliament 'to commit now and wholeheartedly to the actions needed to end child poverty'

25.02.05
CPAG welcomes the Government's announcement of an increase to the national minimum wage.

10.02.05
CPAG's response to the Government's announcement about the future of school meals.

01.02.05
CPAG responds to Prime Minister's speech on Incapacity Benefit reform.

19.01.05
CPAG has today published its manifesto in which it argues that the UK is just ten steps away from a society free of child poverty.

13.01.05
Today's report from the NAO on the social fund shows yet again that though the social fund is of vital importance to tackling poverty, its operation is fraught with official error and unacceptable variations in service.

05.01.05
CPAG's response to the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Willetts', promise of an amnesty for families that have been over-paid tax credits.

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