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None of the parties had published detailed plans for tackling the funding shortage in children’s social care services.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats have vowed to overhaul the benefit system and scrap the much despised Universal Credit, which has been blamed for deepening hardship and pushing families into poverty. The Conservatives, meanwhile, have pledged to end the five-year freeze on benefits and do more to help the most disadvantaged groups find work.
Adam Corlett, senior economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, a think-tank focusing on people on lower incomes, describes the lifting of the benefits freeze as a “missed opportunity” that would not increase living standards.
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