Published articles

A selection of topical articles contributed by CPAG to other magazines and newspapers. (For articles published in CPAG's own magazine, see the Poverty articles section.)

• Now is the time to tackle child poverty
  In a Guardian letter CPAG and other Campaign to end Child Poverty members urge the Chancellor to take the opportunity offered by the Pre-Budget Report to stimulate the economy with the £3 billion investment needed to halve child poverty by 2010.
  >>> Read the article online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/19/children-socialexclusion (external website)
• The Prejudice of Poverty
  The education system widens the gap between comfortably off and poor children – more should be done to close it, argues Kate Green in The Teacher, December 2007.
  >>> Read the letter online at http://www.nut.org.uk/theteacher/cover_pics/050_teacher_dec07.pdf (external website)
  
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• Poverty and Disability
  Gabrielle Preston asks whether the Government's proposals on welfare reform really address the needs of disabled people with parenting responsibilities. Article published in Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International, issue 55.
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• Invest in children, invest in the future’
  Article by Alex Belardinelli on the Make Child Benefit Count campaign published in Tribune, August 2006.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘Pushing an open door’
  Many parents with disabilities are willing to return to work, and their plea to ministers is for support, not threats, say Gabrielle Preston and Alex Belardinelli. Article published in Society Guardian, June 2006.
  >>> Read the article online at http://society.guardian.co.uk/socialexclusion/comment/0,,1806367,00.html (external website)
• ‘Bring back free school meals’
  CPAG's Kate Green makes the case for universal free school meals – in Hull and the rest of the UK, published in Education Guardian, June 2006.
  >>> Read the article online at http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/comment/story/0,,1794069,00.html (external website)
• 'Bigger drive needed on child poverty’
  Alex Belardinelli on the Government’s child poverty target, published in Tribune, March 2006.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘Halve child poverty by 2010’
  Kate Green on CPAG’s wish-list for the 2006 Budget, published on the Financial Times website, March 2006.
  >>> Read the article online at http://news.ft.com/ (external site)
• ‘Careless talk’
  Alex Belardinelli on child poverty and David Cameron’s social justice policy group, published in Progress magazine, March 2006.
  >>> Read the article online at http://www.progressives.org.uk/ (external site)
• ‘Tackling child poverty in London’
  Kate Green on the London Child Poverty Commission, published in North West London Newspapers, March 2006.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘Let’s get to work’
  Kate Green on the welfare reform Green Paper, published on the Guardian website, February 2006.
  >>> Read the article online at http://politics.guardian.co.uk/ (external site)
• ‘A shambles since its inception, now this review must finally deliver’
  Kate Green on the Child Support Agency, published in Tribune, January 2006.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘End child poverty’
  Jonathan Stearn and Kate Green on local government’s role in ending child poverty, published in Local Government First, November 2005.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘Priorities for John Hutton’s in-tray’
  Kate Green on some of the issues facing the new Work and Pensions Secretary, published in Tribune, November 2005.
  >>> Read on this website
• ‘Hitting them when they’re down’
  Kate Green on tax credits and the Child Support Agency, published in Public Finance magazine, September 2005.
  >>> Read the article online at http://www.cipfa.org.uk/publicfinance/ (external site)
• ‘Getting welfare rights back on the agenda’
  Kate Green on welfare rights and the Government’s child poverty targets, published in Chartist magazine, September 2005.
  >>> Read the article online at http://www.chartist.org.uk/ (external site)