Archived press releases – 2007

13.12.07
‘Ready for Work: full employment in our generation’ is published today by the Department for Work and Pensions. It includes major reforms for benefits for lone parents. CPAG comments.

11.12.07
‘Children’s Plan’ announced by Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. CPAG comments.

10.12.07
Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, makes a speech to members of the Campaign to End Child Poverty..

03.12.07
CPAG comments on the Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2007 report published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute.

03.12.07
"Treasury must keep 2010 promise to poor children" – CPAG comments on the Treasury Select Committee’s report on ‘The Comprehensive Spending Review 2007’.

19.11.07
CPAG comments on today’s publication of an evaluation of the test to determine eligibility for the new Employment and Support allowance.

06.11.07
CPAG is pleased to see attention given to children’s services, education and training in Gordon Brown’s first Queen’s Speech.

29.10.07
CPAG comments on the announcement by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Peter Hain, that a new Child Poverty Unit is being created to accelerate progress towards the 2010 target of halving child poverty.

17.10.07
Today’s report from Ofsted, The Annual Report of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, 2006/07, highlights the links between low education attainment and economic disadvantage. It states: “The relationship between poverty and outcomes for young people is stark”.

16.10.07
Cameron’s promise to children in poverty will not be credible until he confirms that a Conservative administration will not scrap the Government’s targets to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020.

09.10.07
New PM and Chancellor failing trust test on promise to end child poverty.

05.10.07
CPAG comments ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review and Pre-Budget Report statements due on Tuesday 9 October.

24.09.07
Commenting on today's speech by the Prime Minister, Gordon Bown, to the Labour Party Conference, the Chief Executive of CPAG, Kate Green, said: "We welcome the Prime Ministers firm recommitment to abolishing child poverty.poverty".

13.09.07
£14 billion of means tested benefits fails to reach those in poverty.

12.09.07
A new report published today by CPAG Chicken and Egg: Child Poverty and Educational Inequality shows that children in poverty fall further behind their peers at every stage of schooling.

03.08.07
New £4 billion for Sure Start, early years and childcare key to ending child poverty

27.07.07
CPAG comments on the new Liberal Democrat policy paper, ‘Freedom from Poverty, Opportunity for All: policies for a fairer Britain’

26.07.07
CPAG comments on the report of the Work and Pensions Committee on ‘Benefits Simplification’ published today.

25.07.07
CPAG has been given the ‘Outstanding contribution from a non-academic organisation’ award at the annual awards ceremony of the Social Policy Association.

18.07.07
“Forcing lone parents to face benefit sanctions when their children are still at primary schools is outrageous. Taking money away from families that are already poor will worsen poverty for many children and put their health and wellbeing at risk."

17.07.07
CPAG welcomes the report ‘Tackling Educational Inequality’ by Lib Dem linked think-tank Centre Forum, which proposes for extra schools funding to be delivered to the most disadvantaged through a ‘Pupil Premium’.

17.07.07
CPAG comments on reports published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which suggest that the gap between rich and poor has grown.

17.07.07
Sure Start needs greater commitment from national and local government

09.07.07
Tax breaks for marriage would squander resources needed to end child poverty – CPAG responds to the Conservative Social Policy Group’s report, ‘Breakthrough Britain’.

04.07.07
MPs must ensure Child Maintenance Bill improves children’s lives and helps end child poverty.

27.06.07
CPAG publishes a special edition of the journal Poverty in which experts on child welfare and poverty ask ‘Where next for Gordon Brown? His first hundred days’.

21.06.07
CPAG comments on the publication of Care Matters, by the Department for Education and Skills

11.06.07
The Institute of Education publishes clear-cut evidence that poverty and inequality leave children at a major disadvantage from an early age.

06.06.07
CPAG comments on today’s publication of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, published today.

28.05.07
CPAG’s Chief Executive, Kate Green, has written to the six candidates for the Labour Deputy Leadership, challenging them to support the policies needed to halve child poverty by 2010 and end child poverty by 2020.

23.05.07
CPAG strongly support the the Work and Pensions Committee’s calls for the government to review eligibility for the Social Fund and launch a formal consultation on how it can be improved.

23.05.07
This important report, It doesn’t happen here: The reality of child poverty in the UK, from Barnado's, not only gives voice to families who know the reality of living in poverty, but sets out the vital steps we must take if we are to eradicate child poverty.

22.05.07
Improvement to tax credits administration vital to meeting Government targets on child poverty.

21.05.07
CPAG comments on today’s announcement of £340 million to help families with disabled children.

16.05.07
CPAG welcomes Conservatives’ rejection of grammar schools.

09.05.07
CPAG comments on the report published today by the Public Accounts Committee on tax credits.

30.03.07
A report published today by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, ‘The Treatment of Asylum Seekers’, has heavily criticised the Government’s standards of care and protection of rights for asylum seeker families and children who arrive unaccompanied by an adult.

27.03.07
CPAG comments on the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) figures for 2005/06 and ‘Working for Children’, the DWP’s response to Harker.

21.03.07
CPAG Budget response 2007.

19.03.07
CPAG comments on Disability 2020 a new Institute for Public Policy Research report.

15.03.07
Government should act on MPs’ recommendations on child support reform.

05.03.07
In response to the launch of the Freud review of welfare to work, CPAG rejects need for greater sanctions and calls for more support.

27.02.07
CPAG welcomes Alan Johnson’s defence of the principle that the tax and benefits systems should not be biased in favour of any family structure.

20.02.07
Half price bus and tram travel a major help for London’s poorest families.

16.02.07
CPAG comments on today’s speech on child wellbeing by Conservative leader David Cameron.

14.02.07
A new UNICEF report published today has found that the UK is bottom of a list of 21 of the world’s richest nations for an overall measure of child well-being.

13.02.07
Independent advice sector must not be compromised by contracting out benefit delivery.

12.02.07
Rushed review of benefits poses child poverty threat.

30.01.07
Lone parents who want to work must be helped, not harassed.

30.01.07
CPAG today published online their report Comprehensive Spending Review 2007: what it needs to deliver on child poverty.

24.01.07
New research seen by CPAG has shown that Hull City Council’s scheme to provide free healthy school meals to school children is bringing many benefits.

23.01.07
CPAG responds the Public Accounts Committee report, Department for Work and Pensions: using leaflets to communicate with the public about services and entitlements.

16.01.07
CPAG responds to today’s report by the Public Accounts Committee, Gaining and retaining a job: the Department for Work and Pensions’ support for disabled people.

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