More than half-a-million children will be lifted out of poverty thanks to Labour’s long-awaited child poverty strategy , ministers are claiming

The strategy was published on Friday, almost 18 months after the Child Poverty Taskforce was established in July 2024.

But despite the months of deliberation not all of the measures to lift 550,000 children out of poverty are new. Here is a summary of the main measures.

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap

The centre piece of the strategy is scrapping the two-child benefit cap which, it says, will lift 450,000 children out of poverty. This measure has long been campaigned for by Labour MPs.

Rachel Reeves announced that the t wo-child benefit cap will be abolished in full from next April in the Budget – the week before the strategy was pub

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