In this blog, Thea Jaffe, one of the parent campaigners for All Kids Count campaign to scrap the two-child limit, reflects on winning this year’s Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) Campaign of the Year Award. A year ago, I stumbled in my high heeled boots from a corporate conference to a food bank. What a contrast […]
Young workers living in poverty respond to proposed changes to minimum wage In response to speculation that the Chancellor will slow down increases to minimum wage for younger workers, Youth Ambassadors for the End Child Poverty Coalition have published an open letter to Rachel Reeves. Highlighting that low wages for young workers will continue to […]
Today (11/06/25) the Chancellor presented her Spending Review. But what impact will this have for families who are living in poverty? Liv, a Youth Ambassador who has grown up in a low income family explains how she feels about today’s announcement, she says; “Like many others, I’m profoundly disappointed by the Chancellor’s Spending Review today. […]
children have been pulled into poverty by the two-child limit to benefit payments since this government came to power
