More parents on universal credit to get childcare costs paid upfront

More parents on universal credit who go to work will get their childcare costs paid upfront under the Government’s new child poverty strategy.

And, for the first time, working parents on benefits will get help with nursery fees for all their children.

Sir Keir Starmer’s Government said the strategy would lift 550,000 children out of poverty by the end of the decade through welfare measures, reforms to temporary accommodation, and a crackdown on the cost of baby formula. New Feature

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Ministers began work on the child poverty plan just days after Labour came to power in July last year, but the document was delayed by wrangling over the future of the two-child benefit cap .

In last week’s Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves opted to scrap