North East Child Poverty Commission
@nechildpoverty.bsky.social
NECPC is a cross-sector regional network which believes child poverty in the North East of England is not inevitable and ending it is worth working for, together. Read more: https://nechildpoverty.org.uk/
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February 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Read the full plan here: tinyurl.com/3a4nsuj7
🔴 Alongside many others, both here in the North East and across the country, we have advocated extensively for an end to this cruel policy over many years.
🟢 NECPC therefore strongly welcomes this legislation and has written to all North East MPs with a short briefing urging them to back it ⤵️
🟢 NECPC therefore strongly welcomes this legislation and has written to all North East MPs with a short briefing urging them to back it ⤵️
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
🔴 Alongside many others, both here in the North East and across the country, we have advocated extensively for an end to this cruel policy over many years.
🟢 NECPC therefore strongly welcomes this legislation and has written to all North East MPs with a short briefing urging them to back it ⤵️
🟢 NECPC therefore strongly welcomes this legislation and has written to all North East MPs with a short briefing urging them to back it ⤵️
🚸 The Bill will enact, from April 2026, the Government's commitment to end the two-child limit in Universal Credit that has been in place since 2017 - as the central plank of its new national child poverty strategy, 'Our Children, Our Future'.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty
Strategy document setting out the government’s ambitious decade long mission to tackle the drivers of child poverty across the UK.
www.gov.uk
February 3, 2026 at 11:57 AM
🚸 The Bill will enact, from April 2026, the Government's commitment to end the two-child limit in Universal Credit that has been in place since 2017 - as the central plank of its new national child poverty strategy, 'Our Children, Our Future'.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
