"As school leaders, headteachers, governors, teachers and support staff working in schools and academies across England, we are writing to you about the forthcoming government child poverty strategy and the critical need for it to fully scrap the two-child limit policy. This poverty producing policy is harming the lives of hundreds of thousands of children and young people in our classrooms, and we are calling on government to put an end to this this autumn."
"No child deserves to live in poverty, full stop. But the educational impact of the poverty that continues to rip through our communities and schools cannot be overstated. Poverty is having an adverse impact on children's ability to learn, with children living in low-income households doing worse on average than their peers at every milestone, and it is making it increasingly hard for educators to carry out their core roles, with 79% of school staff in all roles reporting this."
Teaching unions ask the prime minister to scrap the two-child benefit cap ahead of Labour's annual conference in Liverpool. The policy, introduced in 2017, restricts most families to claiming universal credit and tax credits for only their first two children. The Resolution Foundation estimates removing the cap could lift 470,000 children out of poverty. Major education organisations including the NGA, NAHT, ASCL, NEU, NASUWT and Unison call for the policy's full abandonment in the forthcoming child poverty strategy expected before Christmas. Unions describe the cap as cruel and say it harms children's learning and educators' ability to teach, with 79% of school staff reporting adverse impacts.
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