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Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister Dara Calleary publish the new National Child Poverty Target (Department of the Taoiseach)

Public Technologies 18 Dec 2025
This Child Poverty Target will significantly contribute to the wider whole of government approach to address child poverty, including the work of the Child Poverty and Well-Being Programme Office in ...
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Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?

The Conversation 17 Dec 2025
The UK government recently unveiled its child poverty strategy, with the removal of the two-child limit on benefits payments as the centrepiece. What’s sobering is how desperately the UK needs a strategy to address child poverty.
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N.J. city reduced child poverty, but many are still low-income

NJ 16 Dec 2025
Camden’s rates of child poverty and well-being have improved in the past decade, though the city continued to fare worse than the state as a whole, according to a recent report released by a Newark-based nonprofit children’s advocacy group ....
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Moore administration invests $19 million to end child poverty in Maryland

Hastings Tribune 12 Dec 2025
Gov. Wes Moore on Thursday announced his administration will invest $19 million into programs to end child poverty across the state ... .
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Oral Statement: Child Poverty Progress Report 2025 (9 December 2025) (Welsh Government)

Public Technologies 09 Dec 2025
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Thousands of children in poverty across Wales to be helped by UK Government’s historic Child Poverty Strategy (British Prime Minister's Office)

Public Technologies 08 Dec 2025
Shortly after the 2025 General Election, the Prime Minister set up the Child Poverty Taskforce to bring together government and experts to explore how government could use all its available levers to drive down child poverty.
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Labour launches child poverty strategy but hints costly welfare system has to change

AOL 06 Dec 2025
It’s an investment in the future of the children who are affected by poverty,” he said ... The move is expected to lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2031 ... Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty.
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Child poverty strategy ‘will give every child a good start in life’

AOL 05 Dec 2025
The Government said failure to tackle child poverty ... “The absence of ambitious targets to propel forward this Government’s mission to reduce child poverty is deeply concerning.
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The Guardian view on reducing child poverty: with the two-child limit gone, Labour must go ...

The Guardian 05 Dec 2025
If the government’s long-awaited child poverty strategy, launched on Friday, was a bit of a damp squib, that is because the best bit had been absorbed by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in last month’s budget.
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Costs of Child Poverty: A rapid evidence review of the effect of income on child outcomes (DWP - UK Department for Work and Pensions)

Public Technologies 05 Dec 2025
... rapid evidence review to inform the UK government's Child Poverty Strategy ... The findings supported the Child Poverty Taskforce and the development of the UK's cross-government Child Poverty Strategy.
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Starmer sets out plans to cut child poverty by 550,000

Belfast Telegraph 05 Dec 2025
... decision to scrap the two-child benefit cap.
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