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11 Jan, 6 tweets, 3 min read
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Lots yesterday and today about Keir Starmer's speech today. @POLITICOEurope helpfully provides a link for the speech expected at 1107am labour.org.uk/keir-starmer-s…
It seems a big theme will be on securing family incomes. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
On #Marr yesterday, the Labour leader repeated his call for the plans to cut Universal Credit by £20 pw to be scrapped - something @actnforchildren called for after examining the evidence from our Coronavirus crisis grants scheme actionforchildren.org.uk/our-work-and-i…
The focus on families is right. We know from past experience that the right policies can make a difference for families - of all different sizes and types.

Take a look at the child poverty rate of lone parents since 1997 >>>
In 1997, nearly half of children in lone parent families in part-time work were growing up poor. As a result of a series of measures (e.g. tax credits, childcare, child benefit) this went down to 25%, before austerity unwound much of this progress.

Policy matters.

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11 Dec 20
THREAD: Is the Govt changing its cherrypicking strategy on child poverty claims?

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

1. What PM wrongly claimed on child poverty in 2019, earning @StatsRegulation rebuke

2. What PM claimed on child poverty at PMQs on 18 Nov 20
In the first statement, the PM used 2010 as a baseline. At the time, relative poverty was rising and absolute poverty was historically weak - we could not see where the 400,000 claim had come from.

An earlier thread on the PM's past claims
In the PMQs claim he talks about the last 10 yrs.

If he means since 2010, he'd be repeating his incorrect claim.

Does he mean the last 10 years for which we have statistics?

That would be starting at 2009/10 - under LAB & well before benefit cuts started to bite from 2012
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14 Oct 20
THREAD

Q. For Conservatives, what's so special about Stoke on Trent Central (@jogideon) Hendon (@Offord4Hendon) & Sedgefield (@PaulHowellMP)?

A. Child poverty in CON seats - league table ↓

Stoke C: Highest percentage
Hendon: Highest numbers
Sedgefield: Biggest rise

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Today, @EndChildPoverty coalition hosted by @CPAGUK & chaired by @AnnaFeuchtwang published estimates of child poverty broken down by LA, constituency and ward levels.

endchildpoverty.org.uk/child-poverty-…

It was carried out by @donaldhirsch @JulietStone77 of @CRSP_LboroUni

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You can read @patrickjbutler's write up here theguardian.com/society/2020/o…

The @theipaper's @the__chez also covered it inews.co.uk/news/north-eas…

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25 Sep 20
LETTER in the Times, in response to @jennirsl column on early intervention

Would be dangerously irresponsible to have an NHS with only A&E depts but no primary care or public health – yet this kind of short-sightedness is what we’re facing in children’s services.
Column: thetimes.co.uk/article/thugs-…
Letter: thetimes.co.uk/edition/commen…
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14 Sep 20
THREAD: Today, as we approach the 6 month mark of CV19 measures, @actnforchildren publishes a report on its Coronavirus Emergency Fund actionforchildren.org.uk/what-we-do/pol…
THE EMERGENCY FUND

We set up our crisis fund in direct response to frontline staff telling us our services were seeing families with children struggling to pay for their living needs.

The Emergency Fund was funded through generous donations from the pubic and by firms Image
CASE STUDIES

The report includes some examples of how the Emergency Fund helped families Image
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30 Jul 20
THREAD:

How can PM level up the country if he cannot level with the public about how many children are in poverty?

That's the question we should be asking ourselves after the @StatsRegulation ruled the PM incorrectly used child poverty statistics.
Here's some of the coverage:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/statisti…
So, what did the PM say that was wrong?

What is the response of the Statistics Authority, to the complaint from @AnnaFeuchtwang @EndChildPoverty?

And is No.10's response to the Statistics Authority simply repeating the error?
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4 May 20
THREAD: This morning the ONS published its Personal and Economic Wellbeing Bulletin.

This latest version looks at the impact of the coronavirus on our happiness and our worries.

Here are 4 key points - and their implications:
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
1. *Anxiety has doubled*: Almost half (49.6%) of people in GB reported "high" anxiety 20-30 March; this was sharply elevated compared with the end of 2019 (21%), and equates to over 25 million people (out of the population aged 16 years and over).
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