Offering fruit and milk vouchers to families, reforming the two-child benefit cap and ramping up parental advice services are under consideration to tackle child poverty in Britain.

The long-awaited child poverty strategy, due to be published this autumn, has been used by No 10 as a carrot to Labour MPs growing impatient with the government’s approach to lifting struggling families out of deprivation.

Helping impoverished children is one of Sir Keir Starmer’s key pledges and a cross-department ministerial group was formed to come up with a plan to turn the tide on the number of children growing up poor. New Feature

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The strategy had been due in Spring 2025 but was shelved amid the almighty row over disability and sickness benefit cut

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