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Scrapping two-child benefit cap ‘on the table’, education secretary confirms

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May 27, 2025

The government is actively consulting the benefit limit of two sections, confirmed the Secretary of Education, stating that the measure is “on the table.”

Bridget Phillipsson said a government work group, which was launched last July, is examining “all liver” to get children out of poverty.

Phillipson serves as co -chair of the child poverty task force together with Liz Kendall, the Secretary of Labor and Pensions.

The limit of two sections, a policy introduced under a conservative government in 2017, prevents parents from claiming universal credit for a third or any subsequent child. Phillipson seemed to recognize Tuesday morning that the limit has not affected decisions about the size of the family and, rather, “everything he has done has pushed more children to poverty.”

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He pressed if the government intended to abolish the limit, said Phillipson Times Radio: “It is on the table: there are no measures out of the table. We have always clearly clarify that, and, of course, Social Security is an important element of how we address child poverty …

“There are many ways in which the child poverty working group is considering how we can get children out of poverty. But, of course, we cannot ignore the impact of changes on Social Security.”

Comments are the strongest indication that the Labor Government is the preparation to discard policy.

Phillipson added: “[These are] Social security changes that were introduced by conservatives that a Labor Government would not have introduced in the first place. But it’s difficult, it’s a challenge.

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The Secretary of Education added that a decision on the limit of two spirals would come in a fiscal event.

Speaking later to BBC Radio 4Today’s program, Phillipson acknowledged, reports that the new children’s strategy will be published in the fall, later than initially planned.

“The reason for that is that we want to do well,” he said, adding: “This is a complex area that implies social security issues, but also other levers that we, like government and others, can throw to tear down.”

Phillipson commented: “That is why I am in politics, it is what this Labor Government is about: we will make different decisions to support children and families. [than the Conservative Party]. We have already done it.

“That is why we have been involved in the expansion of child care enormously to support working families. That is why we are launching new free breakfast clubs in our primary schools, why we are going to reduce the cost of school uniforms and increase the parletes.

“That is the moral purpose of this Labor Government. We are determined to reduce the number of children growing in poverty.”

Phillipson repeated that discarding the limit of two ESP that is “on the table” and that the movement is consulted by the child poverty working group that co -presided.

The Secretary of Education insisted that the benefits limit of two Shild was not a change “that a Labor Government had introduced.” But she pointed to the state of public finances, commenting: “Looking to relax and changing the social security system is not easy, and it costs a lot of money, and we have this right.”

Phillipson added: “We want to make this change happen, and it will be the moral mission of this Labor Government to ensure that Ferwer’s children grow up in poverty, and where it does not determine everything that can go similarly, Bee, Bete to turn, bete to turn, upper bee. Even in Sunderland, where I am talking today, the background is a destination, where it is determining what is determined.

“That has to come to an end, and we will break that link.”

The Secretary of Education encoded the conversations he has had with the constituents who made “perfectly reasonable and rational decisions to have several children, have three children.”

She said: “In the case of a constituent that I met, they lost their partner, who died unexpectedly, they are unable to access all the support they had anticipated for their whole family, who did what a bleach was perfectly.

“The changes around the social security system that conservatives really had an impact on the decisions that people are taking around family size. Everything he has made has pushed more poverty.”

Josh Self is an editor of Politics.co.uk, follow him in Bluesky Gentleman.

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