UK poverty: what's the problem?

A new collaborative project, available at , hopes to open up a new conversation about how poverty is currently talked about and understood in the UK. Ruth Patrick, Kayleigh Garthwaite and Stephen Crossley explain how the project came about.

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CPAG's Cost of the School Day project

CPAG’s Cost of the School Day project in Scotland is working with schools and local authorities to understand the barriers that costs create for children from low-income families, and to support policy and practice change to reduce or remove them. With the project set to be introduced in England and Wales, and expanded in Scotland, what can be learned from the last six years?

By Sara Spencer

Publication:Poverty Journal, Issue 165 (Feb 2020)

How big a state do we want?

A future strategy to end child poverty will need to be honest about the size and role of the state, and how the necessary investments can be funded. Drawing on CPAG’s latest book, Let’s Talk About Tax, Tom Lee puts the size of the UK state in international context and considers a range of options for increasing tax revenues in a progressive fashion.

Publication:Poverty Journal, Issue 165 (Feb 2020)

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