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Families at heart of political agenda

    News
  • Monday, May 23, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband have sought to put families and young people at the heart of their political agendas.

Gingerbread calls on government to drop child maintenance fees

    News
  • Thursday, February 10, 2011
  • | CYP Now
Single-parent charity Gingerbread has renewed calls for government to reverse plans to introduce child maintenance fees after figures revealed more than 1.1bn was collected by the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission (CMEC) last year.

Miliband: Families face a cost of living crisis

    News
  • 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

    Other
  • 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.

The hidden helpers

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  • Tuesday, June 11, 2013
  • | CYP Now
Hundreds of thousands of children and young people care for a family member, but their needs often get ignored. Joe Lepper investigates the barriers young carers face in getting the vital support they require.