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BLOG: Why Scrapping the Two-Child Benefit Cap Matters
By Head of Public Affairs Alexis Darby
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP announced in the Autumn Budget that, from April 2026, the Government will remove the two-child benefit cap. Introduced in 2017, the cap blocked Universal Credit payments for third and subsequent children born after 6 April 2017.
This change marks one of the most significant reversals of welfare policy in a decade - particularly for families in the North of England, where the impact of austerity and rising living costs…
A group of leading academics have released a book that…
Patients across the North of England will be among the…
On January 24, 2023, the Child of the North APPG…
A report out today by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA), with…
New research highlights the unequal impact that deprivation has on…
The outcomes of an innovative project to reduce the risk…
