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Government urged to invest in social security to reduce child poverty

The Government will fail to make any progress on child poverty if its strategy does not include investment in social security, a new report argues.
Researchers are concerned about the impact of the latest lockdown on children's well-being
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As the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) publishes its annual UK poverty report, new analysis shows that under the central OBR projections, only Scotland will see child poverty rates fall by 2029 due to specific policies the devolved government has introduced.

It finds that welfare policies, such as the Scottish Child Payment and mitigating the two-child limit from 2026, are behind Scotland ‘bucking the trend’ of rising child poverty rates elsewhere in the UK. 

The JRF warns that the child poverty outlook across the four nations is ‘shameful’, with only Scotland showing some improvement, however without further action the country will remain ‘some way’ off reaching its child poverty reduction targets.

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