Archived press releases – 2006

19.12.06
Lib Dems’ commitment to end child poverty cements historic cross party consensus.

18.12.06
"Hutton’s threat to unemployed shows little understanding of joblessness." CPAG comments on the Secretary of State for Work and Pension’s speech proposing stopping benefits for long term unemployed people.

13.12.06
"CSA replacement must speed up delivery of maintenance and allow families to keep it" said CPAG, commenting on the publication of today’s white paper on Child Support Agency reform.

11.12.06
"Conservatives must recognise that a marriage certificate is not a magic cure-all for disadvantage." CPAG comments on the publication of the mid-term report of the Conservative Party's Social Justice Policy Group.

06.12.06
CPAG's Chief Executive, Kate Green, comments on today’s Pre-Budget Report.

05.12.06
Leitch must be supported by policy to help poorest access skills and training.

04.12.06
To get the government back on track for halving child poverty by 2010, the Chancellor’s Pre-Budget report this Wednesday must take account of families in in-work poverty and those not able to work.

01.12.06
As DWP announce details of their disability equality duty action plan, a new CPAG report published today suggests the department’s plans to meet disability equality duty requirements for disabled children and their families may not be sufficient.

01.12.06
Three leading children’s charities, Child Poverty Action Group, Contact a Family and One Parent Families today called on the Government to take more action on benefits for disabled children.

30.11.06
New figures released by the Department for Education and skills show that the majority of children in poverty do not have free school meals.

24.11.06
CPAG’s Chief Executive, Kate Green, comments on David Cameron’s Scarman Lecture speech ‘From state welfare to social enterprise: the modern Conservative approach to tackling poverty’.

22.11.06
CPAG’s Chief Executive, Kate Green, responds to comments by Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Ruffley MP, on work by the party’s Social Justice Policy Commission.

17.11.06
CPAG’s Chief Executive, Kate Green, will today be joined by parents and children from TAMBA, the Twins and Multiple Births Association, in Westminster to take their call to Make Child Benefit Count to the Chancellor.

15.11.06
CPAG responds to the Queen's Speech, by saying action on poverty and CSA reform must deliver more money to the poorest children.

08.11.06
Kate Green, CPAG’s Chief Executive, will today give evidence to MPs on the influential Work and Pensions Select Committee for their enquiry on reaching an 80% employment rate.

03.11.06
As part of the month of action to end child poverty, the Child Poverty Action Group are today holding a seminar with key stakeholders from the End Child Poverty coalition, academia and government.

01.11.06
CPAG responds to the report Delivering on Child Poverty: what would it take? by the Government’s child policy adviser, Lisa Harker, which has been published today by the Department for Work and Pensions.

26.10.06
New figures released today by DWP estimate that up to £8 billion is not being claimed in means tested benefits by those who are entitled to it.

17.10.06
Marking the UN day for the eradication of poverty CPAG has joined with over fifty other organisations as part of the Campaign to End Child Poverty to urge much greater action in the forthcoming spending review.

11.10.06
A coalition of organisations is today calling on ministers to scrap a welfare rule causing hardship and homelessness among young and vulnerable adults.

15.09.06
CPAG responds to John Hutton’s keynote speech on tackling child poverty and social exclusion at the end of the ‘social exclusion week’.

05.09.06
CPAG responds to Prime Minister's lecture on social exclusion.

01.09.06
The schools costs campaign coalition is pushing the Government to enforce its own guidance which state that ‘No school uniform should be so expensive as to leave pupils or their families feeling socially excluded’.

30.08.06
The Make Child Benefit Count campaign, which calls for child benefit to be increased and paid at the same rate for all children, is growing in strength and now has the support of 40 organisations and thousands of parents.

29.08.06
Benefit delivery in the twenty first century will be the focus of CPAG's Conference next week.

24.08.06
Campaigners today issued a reminder to families receiving tax credits that they should return their renewal forms by next Thursday’s deadline.

06.08.06
Campaigners are today celebrating 60 years of support for children by calling for child benefit to be increased and paid at the same rate for all children.

27.07.06
The latest round of gas and electricity price rises will hit the poorest hardest according to CPAG.

24.07.06
CPAG has given a broad welcome to reforms of the beleaguered child support system announced by Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton today.

20.07.06
CPAG has welcomed a decision by Hull City Council to re-affirm its commitment to its successful universal free school meals policy.

20.07.06
CPAG has welcomed Leeds City Council’s decision to reverse planned cuts to school uniform grants for thousands of low-income families in the city.

20.07.06
A leading children’s charity is urging councillors in Hull to keep their successful free school meals policy when they vote on the issue later today.

17.07.06
An updated guide for parents finding their way through the complicated child support system has been published by CPAG this month.

14.07.06
CPAG has condemned the decision by Leeds City Council to cut school uniform grants for low income families.

06.07.06
Campaigners have backed the conclusions of a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report into what more the Government must do to get its child poverty targets back on track.

04.07.06
More support, rather than threats of benefit sanctions, is the best way to help disabled people back to work, CPAG said today as the Government published its Welfare Reform Bill.

30.06.06
CPAG today backed the conclusions of a damning National Audit Office report into the Child Support Agency (CSA).

26.06.06
A Route out of Poverty? Disabled people, work and welfare reform draws on interviews with a number of disabled parents who have tried to find paid employment and sends a stark message to Ministers as they prepare to publish their Welfare Reform Bill.

23.06.06
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton has used an interview with CPAG to defend his welfare reform plans and outline his thinking on the Government’s child poverty targets.

20.06.06
CPAG has questioned whether proposals to introduce tax relief for childcare costs and tax breaks for married couples, suggested by Conservative leader David Cameron today, would help the poorest families.

12.06.06
A report calling for parents to be given more support with the costs of childcare has been welcomed by CPAG.

07.06.06
CPAG has attacked a decision by Hull City Council’s new Liberal Democrat administration to end its pioneering free school meals policy.

06.06.06
Campaigners for families on low incomes have welcomed a report from the Treasury select committee calling for further improvements to the tax credits system.

01.06.06
CPAG is supporting calls for reform of the Social Fund, recommended in a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) report published today.

31.05.06
Public confidence in the tax credit system must be restored, CPAG said today as figures were published showing that £1.8 billion was overpaid in 2004/05.

24.05.06
Campaigners concerned about the future of legal aid are targeting Westminster to lobby Parliament for better access to justice.

20.05.06
Responding to the first keynote speech by the new Minister for Social Exclusion Hilary Armstrong, CPAG said it was looking forward to working with her on “creating a fairer society free of child poverty.”

19.05.06
CPAG responds to the publication of new minimum nutrition standards for school food.

10.05.06
Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton’s announcement that tackling child poverty would be his department’s “number one priority” has been welcomed by CPAG.

06.05.06
CPAG responds to the report of the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee into Incapacity Benefit reform and the Pathways to Work scheme.

27.04.06
CPAG has welcomed Education Secretary Ruth Kelly’s speech to the IPPR on education and social mobility, but insisted much more needs to be done to close the attainment gap between pupils from poorer and better off backgrounds.

27.04.06
The Government needs to encourage greater take-up of welfare benefits by making the system easier to access and understand.

25.04.06
A new study published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation today starkly shows why the cycle of disadvantage must be ended.

25.04.06
Tax credits – reforms must restore public confidence says CPAG.

21.04.06
As the Government’s consultation on its welfare reform plans draws to a close today, a new report shows the growing importance of welfare rights advice.

12.04.06
CPAG is this week publishing the latest edition of its renowned Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.

11.04.06
Campaign groups have welcomed the Conservative Party's commitment to the Government's target to end child poverty by 2020.

07.04.06
CPAG has welcomed the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's interest in poverty and social exclusion in his speech to the Conservative Party Spring Conference today.

30.03.06
The final report of the Fabian Commission on Life Chances and Child Poverty should set the agenda for next year's Comprehensive Spending Review.

29.03.06
Ahead of the 2007 Spending Review, ten of the UK's leading children's charities have joined forces to call for "a step-change" in the campaign to end child poverty.

23.03.06
The Legal Services Commission (LSC) has reversed its controversial decision to axe the Specialist Support Service.

22.03.06
CPAG response to Budget 2006

21.03.06
The escalating cost of gas and electricity is blighting the lives of millions of families and the Government must do more to boost the incomes of households in fuel poverty.

20.03.06
CPAG welcomes minimum wage rise.

18.03.06
CPAG has responded to the Work and Pensions Select Committee's report into the efficiency savings programme at Jobcentre Plus published today.

16.03.06
In a Budget submission to the Chancellor (52 KB pdf file), CPAG said it welcomed the progress made so far but called for more to be done for low-income families.

15.03.06
CPAG warns of the impact of domestic energy price rises on low-income families.

15.03.06
CPAG has responded to the National Audit Office's report on DWP contact centres published today.

14.03.06
CPAG has welcomed a report that strongly criticises a decision by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to cut funding for the Specialist Support Services.

09.03.06
Reacting to latest figures in the annual Households Below Average Income report, the Child Poverty Action Group and the End Child Poverty campaign said they were “disappointed” that Ministers had missed the first milestone on the road to halving child poverty by 2010 and ending it by 2020.

06.03.06
Liberal Democrat proposals to cut income support for lone parents have been criticised by a leading children’s charity.

02.03.06
CPAG has given a guarded welcome to take-up figures for the first year of the new tax credits system.

01.03.06
The poorest children who are entitled to free school meals are still half as likely to get five good GCSEs as those who are not.

28.02.06
CPAG responds to the Education and Inspection Bill published by Ruth Kelly today.

24.02.06
CPAG has welcomed news that the Prime Minister is to appoint a new Cabinet Minister to tackle social exclusion.

20.02.06
An independent commission to identify ways to reduce, and eventually eliminate, child poverty in the capital, will be launched by the Association of London Government (ALG) and the Mayor of London today.

16.02.06
CPAG today published new figures showing the large gap between benefit levels and the 'poverty line'.

14.02.06
MPs will today raise concerns about plans to cut funding for essential specialist advice services on areas of law such as welfare benefits, debt, housing and immigration.

09.02.06
CPAG Chief Executive, Kate Green, responds to John Hutton’s announcement on the future of the Child Support Agency.

26.01.06
The Prime Minister has recognised that his Government "needs to do more" to eradicate child poverty, following a plea by CPAG.

24.01.06
CPAG has given a mixed reaction to the welfare reform Green Paper published today.

18.01.06
CPAG comments on reports that private debt collectors are to be used to collect money from absent parents who fail to pay maintenance.

18.01.06
The 13th edition of the Child Support Handbook, published by CPAG, has been fully updated to give clear, practical guidance to the child support scheme.

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