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‘We will work to eliminate child poverty”

The £23,000 benefit cap, to be announced by the chancellor in the emergency budget on July 8, which shows nearly 600 households in the borough would be affected, on top of of the 250 already affected by the current cap.

There are more poor children in London than in Scotland and Wales combined.

While today’s figures tell us there has not been a statistically significant decrease in child poverty levels, they also make it pretty clear that the government is significantly off track when it comes to fulfilling its commitment to end child poverty by 2020.

Mother-of-three "Ms A" lost her home in March 2014 when her housing benefit payment was cut and she could no longer afford the rent, The High Court heard.

According to the CIH, the government's decision to lower the benefit cap from £26,000 to £23,000 would make housing association properties unaffordable in the Midlands and parts of the North, as well as London and the South East.

Later this year the Equality and Human Rights Commission will publish the results of an investigation into maternity discrimination, which campaigners expect to show a sharp rise in bullying and harassment.

Allies of George Osborne are studying an Institute for Fiscal Studies idea to return tax credits to 2003/4 levels, plus inflation - saving £5bn.

Thousands of children in the UK, many of them British, are living in dangerous, squalid conditions well below the poverty line as a result of rapid changes to government immigration and benefit policies, a report by the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford has warned.

Tens of thousands of children face being plunged into poverty by government plans to lower the household benefit cap, leaked advice to ministers shows.