Calls for end to two-child benefit cap

FAMILIES ARE FACING 'DAILY HARDSHIP'

- By GRAEME WHITFIELD

A FRESH report has called on the Government to reduce the two-child benefit cap as it finalises plans to tackle child poverty in regions like the North East.

A report by the independent and cross-party Poverty Strategy Commission makes a series of calls to tackle poverty.

They include scrapping the controversial two-child benefit limit, with the commission saying that it is “clearly a concern that more than one in three of the UK's future citizens are growing up in poverty, with all of the damage to educational outcomes and future health and employment prospects that comes with it”.