New package of support set to benefit thousands of children across Northern Ireland

Around 17,000 children in Northern Ireland are expected to benefit from the government’s removal of the two-child limit

New strategy aims to lift 550,000 children across the UK out of poverty by 2030

Ministers visit Trussell in North Belfast to discuss support for families struggling with cost of living

Around 17,000 children in Northern Ireland are set to benefit from government measures to tackle child poverty, following the removal of the two-child limit. The announcement is the flagship policy of the government’s Child Poverty Strategy, which aims to lift 550,000 children across the UK out of poverty by 2030.

Other measures in the strategy, which was published last week, aim to tackle poverty by increasing the National Living Wage, delivering the first ever sustained above inflatio