The strategy is due to be published this summer, but Action for Children is concerned it will only focus on employment measures to improve parents’ income and ignore wider action needed.
Its research, published in its Paying the Price report, found that while “policies focused on employment have an important part to play in the strategy” they are “less targeted, less cost-effective and more uncertain in their impact”.
The charity believes this limited focus would only lift 150,000 children out of poverty by 2030.
Instead, the strategy needs to include “the single most cost-effective policy option the government could implement” of scrapping of the two-child limit and benefit cap, says Action for Children.
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