Two-child benefit limit has ‘no significant impact’ on children’s development, report says
The scrapping of the two controversial children’s benefit limit will reduce the poverty of the child, but do not help a young man to be ready for early development and school.
The Institute of Financial Research (IFS) concluded that the policy, which was overly criticized by the poverty -fighting campaignists, has not had a “statistically significant effect ılan that has achieved what is known as“ good development levels kadar until the age of five.
The government is expected to publish a strategy to combat poverty this autumn, and former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the current bishop of the Church of England are under pressure to scrape the policy, including the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell.
The two children’s ports were announced by the conservatives in 2015 and entered into force in 2017. In most households, the first two children restrict child tax loans and universal loan.
Charities and organizations working in the sector estimate more than 100 children a day.
The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) said that if the analysis of the policy was scrapped, 350,000 children will be removed from poverty.
The cost of scrapping policy varies between £ 2 billion to £ 2.5 billion at the end of this parliament (2029/30) at the end of this parliament.
In his latest report on Wednesday, IFS said that the scrapping of politics would be one of the most effective ways to reduce child poverty.
However, it also concluded that policy has no negative impact on the development of children measured by their teachers at the end of the year of procurement ”.
The government has the goal of raising the rate of children who are ready to learn from 68 percent to 75 percent from the current levels to 2028.
The “Good Development Level” (GLD) measure covers a child’s communication, physical development, literacy and arithmetic skills – about five years old.
The IFs found that the two children’s benefit limit found a “statistically significant effect üzerinde on the proportion of children reaching the GLD up to this age, and at the same time, ğı A proof of impact on GLD for groups such as groups that have been the most deprived of neighborhoods and entitled to free school dishes before the birth of the third child”.
“The government has determined the bilateral objectives of raising the level of ready for school and reducing child poverty.
“However, our research shows that two children’s limits have no negative impact on the development of children measured by their teachers at the end of the reception year.
“This shows that it may be difficult for the government to kill two birds with a stone-it reduces the child poverty and increases ready for school-by scrapping the two children’s limit.”
IFs said that findings do not mean that policy is not a wider result.
“Two children’s limits clearly contribute to higher child poverty and low material living standards for many families with low -income families.
“This research does not examine the consequences such as child health, prosperity, not caught in GLD measurement, then educational performance or parental stress in old age. This means that these findings do not ignore the other effects of politics on children.”
CPAG General Manager Alison Garnham said: “Like previous research, today’s report confirmed that scrapping two children’s limit will reduce child poverty from the current record.
Lar wider evidence is clear that poverty is clearly giving children a shadow to children beyond the narrow measure of being ready for school, which results in worse health and school results, lower gains in adulthood and lower life expectancy.
“Unless politics falls into the autumn child poverty strategy, the embarrassing heritage of this government will start to work in poverty at the end of this parliament.”
