Protecting the safety net for families with children

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Since 2010, families with children have suffered the biggest cuts in their living standards, mainly because child transfers have fallen in real terms. A coalition of NGOs End Child Poverty has called for a “triple lock” to be applied to protect child transfers as it has done for pensioners.

Author: Jonathan Bradshaw