Social Mobility Commission also calls for end to two-child benefit limit to help generation recover from devastating pandemic
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The government’s social mobility advisers have called for a multi-billion pound investment in welfare, education, and jobs to put disadvantaged youngsters at the heart of the UK’s recovery from the pandemic, and tackle rapidly-widening inequalities.
The Social Mobility Commission said ending child poverty should be at the heart of Britain’s post-Covid plans, and urges the scrapping of the two-child limit on benefits and raising child benefit by £10 a week to lift 1.5m children above the breadline
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