Press releases

21.07.08
CPAG comments on the publication of the welfare reform green paper No one written off: reforming the welfare state to reward responsibility. "The green paper gives great attention to increasing individual responsibility but ignores the responsibilities of employers to open up access to decent jobs."

18.07.08
Better support and decent jobs, not pressure and threats are the way to tackle child poverty. CPAG's response to the leaked draft of the welfare reform green paper.

15.07.08
The whole of London should be appalled that half of inner London children live below the poverty line. Londoners must unite to end child poverty. By showing our own commitment, as service providers, businesses or just individuals we can also step up pressure on the Government to show greater commitment in return.

02.07.08
Public finds income standards for poor families unacceptable. There is nothing inevitable about poverty. Other wealthy countries have far fewer children living in poverty, so we must all demand that the Government’s promise to end child poverty is kept.

28.06.08
“Moving families from workless poverty to in-work poverty is not good enough. Low pay is helping to leave two million British children below the poverty line in working households. We need to change Britain’s damaging culture of inequality through, fair pay, family friendly employers for all parents and fair taxation.”

23.06.08
"It is gross inequality that is the enemy of opportunity and social mobility. Our national ambition must be to end the damaging culture of inequality that has Britain in its grip more than almost every other wealthy country."

12.06.08
CPAG comments on the Government’s response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s report The Best Start in Life? Alleviating deprivation, improving social mobility and eradicating child poverty

10.06.08
CPAG comments on today’s child poverty figures, which show a rise for a second year running: “Every year progress must be planned, invested in and achieved. And every year we must act to end the inequality that is blighting Britain and turning us into a divided nation."

09.06.08
Commenting ahead of the announcement of the child poverty figures for 2006/07, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group, Kate Green said: “We don’t expect it to be good news, but we know that with more money now going to poorer families there will be better news to come."

20.05.08
Following the publication of new figures showing that tax credit overpayments have reduced by £700 million, four leading charities have called on the Government to build on this improvement to introduce the ‘next generation’ of tax credits.

28.04.08
CPAG comments on David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Party event to launch the report Making British Poverty History.

09.04.08
Read CPAG's comments on the new Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, The impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty.

07.04.08
CPAG welcomes the Treasury Select Committee’s report on the Budget 2008

01.04.08
The final report from Hull Council’s pilot of free school meals for primary children provides a compelling case for the benefits of free school meals not just to the poorest children in a class, but the whole school.

27.03.08
CPAG comments on the entitlement amounts for the new Employment Support Allowance, announced by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, James Purnell.

17.03.08
CPAG publishes a new report, 2 skint 4 school: time to end the classroom divide. The report finds that poverty has a profound and negative impact on child development and pre-school experiences and that the the education system compounds inequality.

12.03.08
Budget 2008: £1 billion for poor children shows commitment and keeps 2010 target within reach.

05.03.08
Reseach by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Essex proves that when you look at real families rather than tables of numbers there is no financial incentive to separate.

03.03.08
CPAG comments on the Work and Pensions Select Committee report The best start in life? Alleviating deprivation, improving social mobility, and the committee’s recommendations on the Government’s welfare reform agenda.

28.02.08
Capital Gains, a report by the independent London Child Poverty Commission, points way to brighter future for London children.

27.02.08
£75bn private welfare contracts must not take away family security rights

27.02.08
Commenting on proposals in the new Drug Strategy CPAG states that children of addicts must be protected from benefit bans.

20.02.08
"Positive support, not workhouse values will end child poverty", CPAG comments on today's speech by Work and Pensions Secretary, James Purnell.“

18.02.08
“True opportunity revolution means delivering an adequate income without strings" CPAG responds to Gordon Brown’s speech to the Welsh Labour conference.

05.02.08
“Homelessness will not end worklessness. The Minister’s comments are insulting and stigmatising to people facing major barriers to employment." CPAG comments on proposals by the Housing Minister, Caroline Flint, to bar new tenants access to social housing if families without work do not sign work ‘commitment contracts’.

02.02.08
CPAG responds to government welfare reform adviser, David Freud's, inaccurate comments about the basics of the benefits system, and unfounded allegations about disabled people reliant on benefits for their family security.

29.01.08
The Annual Childcare Costs Survey, published by the Daycare Trust has shown an increase in out-of-school club childcare costs of six times inflation.

28.01.08
A new report from the Department for Work and Pensions, ‘Qualitative research exploring the pathways to work sanctions regime’ warns benefit sanctions can cause ill-health and their use should be limited.

24.01.08
CPAG welcomes James Purnell, the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. He has a great opportunity to make fresh progress on the Government’s historic promise to end child poverty.

08.01.08
CPAG comments on David Cameron’s welfare reform speech, which was trailed by announcements of ‘3-strikes and your out’ benefit sanctions, tough new sanction for lone parents, and use of private companies.

03.01.08
The IPPR report Working out of poverty: a study of the low paid and the working poor, shows that the main plank of the Government’s strategy to end child poverty is failing. Work is all too often not a route out of poverty, but a new poverty trap with low pay.

13.12.07
‘Ready for Work: full employment in our generation’ is published today by the Department for Work and Pensions. It includes major reforms for benefits for lone parents. CPAG comments.

11.12.07
‘Children’s Plan’ announced by Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. CPAG comments.

10.12.07
Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, makes a speech to members of the Campaign to End Child Poverty..

03.12.07
CPAG comments on the Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 report published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute.

03.12.07
"Treasury must keep 2010 promise to poor children" – CPAG comments on the Treasury Select Committee’s report on ‘The Comprehensive Spending Review 2007’.

19.11.07
CPAG comments on today’s publication of an evaluation of the test to determine eligibility for the new Employment and Support allowance.

06.11.07
CPAG is pleased to see attention given to children’s services, education and training in Gordon Brown’s first Queen’s Speech.

29.10.07
CPAG comments on the announcement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Peter Hain, that a new Child Poverty Unit is being created to accelerate progress towards the 2010 target of halving child poverty.

17.10.07
Today’s report from Ofsted, The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, 2006/07, highlights the links between low education attainment and economic disadvantage. It states: “The relationship between poverty and outcomes for young people is stark”.

16.10.07
Cameron’s promise to children in poverty will not be credible until he confirms that a Conservative administration will not scrap the Government’s targets to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020.

09.10.07
New PM and Chancellor failing trust test on promise to end child poverty.

05.10.07
CPAG comments ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report statements due on Tuesday 9 October.

24.09.07
Commenting on today's speech by the Prime Minister, Gordon Bown, to the Labour Party Conference, the Chief Executive of CPAG, Kate Green, said: "We welcome the Prime Ministers firm recommitment to abolishing child poverty.poverty".

13.09.07
£14 billion of means tested benefits fails to reach those in poverty.

12.09.07
A new report published today by CPAG Chicken and Egg: Child Poverty and Educational Inequality shows that children in poverty fall further behind their peers at every stage of schooling.

03.08.07
New £4 billion for Sure Start, early years and childcare key to ending child poverty

27.07.07
CPAG comments on the new Liberal Democrat policy paper, ‘Freedom from Poverty, Opportunity for All: policies for a fairer Britain’

26.07.07
CPAG comments on the report of the Work and Pensions Committee on ‘Benefits Simplification’ published today.

25.07.07
CPAG has been given the ‘Outstanding contribution from a non-academic organisation’ award at the annual awards ceremony of the Social Policy Association.

18.07.07
“Forcing lone parents to face benefit sanctions when their children are still at primary schools is outrageous. Taking money away from families that are already poor will worsen poverty for many children and put their health and wellbeing at risk."

17.07.07
CPAG welcomes the report ‘Tackling Educational Inequality’ by Lib Dem linked think-tank Centre Forum, which proposes for extra schools funding to be delivered to the most disadvantaged through a ‘Pupil Premium’.

17.07.07
CPAG comments on reports published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which suggest that the gap between rich and poor has grown.

17.07.07
Sure Start needs greater commitment from national and local government

09.07.07
Tax breaks for marriage would squander resources needed to end child poverty – CPAG responds to the Conservative Social Policy Group’s report, ‘Breakthrough Britain’.

04.07.07
MPs must ensure Child Maintenance Bill improves children’s lives and helps end child poverty.

27.06.07
CPAG publishes a special edition of the journal Poverty in which experts on child welfare and poverty ask ‘Where next for Gordon Brown? His first hundred days’.

21.06.07
CPAG comments on the publication of Care Matters, by the Department for Education and Skills

11.06.07
The Institute of Education publishes clear-cut evidence that poverty and inequality leave children at a major disadvantage from an early age.

06.06.07
CPAG comments on today’s publication of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, published today.

28.05.07
CPAG’s Chief Executive, Kate Green, has written to the six candidates for the Labour Deputy Leadership, challenging them to support the policies needed to halve child poverty by 2010 and end child poverty by 2020.

23.05.07
CPAG strongly support the the Work and Pensions Committee’s calls for the government to review eligibility for the Social Fund and launch a formal consultation on how it can be improved.

23.05.07
This important report, It doesn’t happen here: The reality of child poverty in the UK, from Barnado's, not only gives voice to families who know the reality of living in poverty, but sets out the vital steps we must take if we are to eradicate child poverty.

22.05.07
Improvement to tax credits administration vital to meeting Government targets on child poverty.

21.05.07
CPAG comments on today’s announcement of £340 million to help families with disabled children.

16.05.07
CPAG welcomes Conservatives’ rejection of grammar schools.

09.05.07
CPAG comments on the report published today by the Public Accounts Committee on tax credits.

30.03.07
A report published today by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, ‘The Treatment of Asylum Seekers’, has heavily criticised the Government’s standards of care and protection of rights for asylum seeker families and children who arrive unaccompanied by an adult.

27.03.07
CPAG comments on the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) figures for 2005/06 and ‘Working for Children’, the DWP’s response to Harker.

21.03.07
CPAG Budget response 2007.

19.03.07
CPAG comments on Disability 2020 a new Institute for Public Policy Research report.

15.03.07
Government should act on MPs’ recommendations on child support reform.

05.03.07
In response to the launch of the Freud review of welfare to work, CPAG rejects need for greater sanctions and calls for more support.

27.02.07
CPAG welcomes Alan Johnson’s defence of the principle that the tax and benefits systems should not be biased in favour of any family structure.

20.02.07
Half price bus and tram travel a major help for London’s poorest families.

16.02.07
CPAG comments on today’s speech on child wellbeing by Conservative leader David Cameron.

14.02.07
A new UNICEF report published today has found that the UK is bottom of a list of 21 of the world’s richest nations for an overall measure of child well-being.

13.02.07
Independent advice sector must not be compromised by contracting out benefit delivery.

12.02.07
Rushed review of benefits poses child poverty threat.

30.01.07
Lone parents who want to work must be helped, not harassed.

30.01.07
CPAG today published online their report Comprehensive Spending Review 2007: what it needs to deliver on child poverty.

24.01.07
New research seen by CPAG has shown that Hull City Council’s scheme to provide free healthy school meals to school children is bringing many benefits.

23.01.07
CPAG responds the Public Accounts Committee report, Department for Work and Pensions: using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and entitlements.

16.01.07
CPAG responds to today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee, Gaining and retaining a job: the Department for Work and Pensions’ support for disabled people.

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