{"id":21171,"date":"2025-12-08T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/?p=21171"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:57:13","slug":"child-poverty-strategy-our-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyfund.org.uk\/news\/child-poverty-strategy-our-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Child poverty strategy – our view"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday (5 December 25) the UK Government published a new strategy – Our Children Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty<\/a>. The strategy details the policies that will lift 550,000 children out of poverty by 2030. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Child poverty is a significant issue for many families raising a disabled or seriously ill child. Parents often cannot work as much as they would like due to their caring responsibilities, and additional costs associated with caring often push families into hardship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year, Family Fund took part in meetings with the Government’s Child Poverty Taskforce. We also shared our research from our Cost of Caring 2025<\/a> report with the team writing the Child Poverty Strategy, so we have been looking forward to its publication for some time! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strategy brings together many policies which have already been announced, and a few new commitments. It is focused on three areas:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n