As someone working in an area of high deprivation, scrapping the two child cap will do very little to improve things for children living in poverty IMO.
I work with families where the children are dripping in labelled clothing, Range Rover outside the house, lashes, Botox, fillers and nails on point, term time holidays abroad etc yet I’m providing food parcels as they are up their eyes in Klarna/debt. In many of the cases they have maximum benefits, DLA, child benefit also. The money isn’t being budgeted and priorities are wrong. In many of these households, nobody works or, if they do, they don’t dare work any further as their benefits will be worse off.
Scrapping the two child limit will just encourage families to continue having children (which is what happened before it was put in place).
Better minimum wage, making it pay to work rather than be on benefits and encouraging people back into work will improve poverty.
Provide free childcare to families in the lowest paid bracket so they can work.
Unpopular opinion I know, but, in my view, changing benefits to vouchers or similar that can only be spent on food, low cost (not branded) clothing etc would also go a long way to improving poverty for our children and encourage people into work.
My husband and I both work full time. We have to budget to the penny, we wouldn’t dream of having more than two children as we know financially that would be very difficult. We shop mainly in supermarkets, have a budget car and are unlikely to afford a summer holiday abroad as we can only go in school holidays which we simply can’t afford.
I’m all for helping those in need, and for the tax taken off me to go towards this, but, in not all but many cases, it’s not being used effectively.
Im not political at all, but, so far, generally, Starmer has priorities right.