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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.

Article by James Bartholomew financial journalist for the Telegraph, on how poverty is measured and how poverty today is not what it used to be!

One factor that the OECD blames for growing inequality is the growth in what it calls non-standard work, which includes temporary contracts and self-employment.

Schools are providing an estimated £43.5m of unfunded support for children from low income families who have been left “high and dry” as a result of coalition cuts, a poll of headteachers has revealed.

Poverty in the UK is increasing after two years of heavy welfare cuts have helped to push hundreds of thousands of people below the breadline, according to an independent study of the coalition government’s record.

A Government drive to get more parents out to work by offering subsidised childcare could be harming children's development, a House of Lords report suggests.

he report makes for depressing reading in many ways: the stated goal of the tax-free childcare credit and the free hours of nursery care for children is to promote development for all children, to narrow the attainment gap between rich and poor, and to enable parents to work.

Rachel Reeves warned fathers will leave companies unless they are granted a month’s leave.