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Ditch ‘bedroom tax' to save more children from poverty

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  • Monday, May 13, 2013
  • | CYP Now
I have a sense of déjà vu with regard to the benefit reforms. It reminds me of the last period of austerity in the 1980s. Here we are again, cutting back services and this time demonising the poorest in society and imposing benefit cuts on them.

Welfare reforms will make children's lives worse

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  • Tuesday, February 7, 2012
  • | CYP Now
I published a joint statement last week with my fellow children's commissioners across the UK about an issue that has kept many people across the children's sector both busy, and awake at night: the Welfare Reform Bill.

Daily roundup: Vocational training, health and parenting

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  • Wednesday, June 18, 2014
  • | CYP Now
New practical qualifications for school children introduced next year; huge rise in Crohn's disease hospital admissions of young people; and parents warned not to give children alcohol at end of exams, all in the news today.

Unfair welfare cuts will heighten child poverty

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  • Tuesday, March 19, 2013
  • | CYP Now
There has been plenty of pre-Budget rhetoric thrown around about welfare and benefits spending from all sides. When the Budget is announced on 20 March, we will know which way the Chancellor jumped.

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