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Miliband: Families face a cost of living crisis

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  • Monday, February 28, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned of a crisis among low- and middle-income families as a result of government austerity measures including the rise in VAT and the reductions in benefits.

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.

Child poverty figure falls by 300,000

    News
  • Thursday, June 14, 2012
  • | CYP Now
The number of children living in relative poverty fell by 300,000 last year meaning that 1.1 million children have been lifted out of poverty since 1999, latest statistics have revealed.

Legal Update: Caring for refugee children

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  • Monday, September 28, 2015
  • | CYP Now
Kamena Dorling, policy and programmes manager at Coram Children's Legal Centre, examines the UK government's response to the refugee crisis and foster care provision for refugee children.

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