The Children’s Prosperity Plan calls for urgent policy changes to be made aimed at eradicating child poverty and raising one million children out of relative poverty by 2030.
Professor David Gordon, Director of the Bristol Poverty Institute, Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, said: “All politicians in the UK claim that they want to reduce child poverty, yet child poverty is still increasing. The economics of child poverty are very simple and are entirely concerned with redistribution – where sufficient resources are redistributed from adults to children there is no child poverty; where insufficient resources are redistributed from adults to children child poverty is inevitable.”
International human rights lawyer and campaigner for equality Cherie Blair CBE KC and Anne Longfield, former Children's Commissioner for England, have also pledged their support for the apolitical plan.
The Blueprint for Change calls for removing the Universal Credit two-child limit, abolishing the benefit cap, and reducing maximum deductions from Universal Credit from 25% to 15%.
Further details can be found on the School for Policy Studies webpage