Rate of child poverty set to fall over the Parliament, with over half a million children lifted out of poverty thanks to scrapping of two-child limit and expansion of Free School Meals

The package of measures announced in the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy – including the abolition of the two-child limit on benefit support and an expanded Free School Meals offer – will result in child poverty rates falling in 2026-27, the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic), the Resolution Foundation said today (Friday).