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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a copy of this article (157KB PDF)
- 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)
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