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Does my child qualify for free school meals? What to know as around 500,000 more pupils eligible

The Child Poverty Action Group has urged the Government to do more to let families know of the policy change

The Independent UK

SNP faces last-minute pleas ahead of final Budget before election

The Finance Secretary faces calls from parties, charities and business leaders ahead of Tuesday’s Budget.

Evening Standard

To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t – and here’s the shocking proof

Asset manager Aberdeen’s surprise cut to funding research into inequality has left those that used its grants for good work reeling, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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School leaders call on ministers to scrap ‘poverty-producing’ two-child benefit cap

Sir Keir Starmer’s government has been under pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap

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OPINION - Years of austerity have cut arts education to the bone – it's time to restore the music

With an incoming government that is yet to announce how it will address and dramatically improve the current funding landscape for the arts in the UK, as Co-founder and CEO of Restore the Music, I offer up a blueprint for a successful funding model for music education in state schools…

Evening Standard

Labour should scrap two-child benefit cap sooner rather than later

Families cannot afford to wait until UK government says there is money to spare to make such a decision

The Guardian - UK

Labour pressed to end two-child benefit cap with 1.6m youngsters affected

Campaigners say figure is shameful and that Tory policy is single biggest driver of child poverty

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Pressure ramps up on Labour to ditch ‘cruel’ two-child benefit cap as 1.6 million children impacted

Some 592,000 children were affected by the policy in 2019, and the figure has increased by 100,000 in the past year

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on universal credit: raising the level of benefits must be the priority

Editorial: The case for removing the two-child and overall benefit caps grows stronger all the time

The Guardian - UK

Boost the economy by ending child poverty

Letters: Armando Iannucci of the Child Poverty Action Group would like to see the two-child benefit cap lifted other means of support being strengthened

The Guardian - UK

One in four teachers giving extra food to hungry students, charity says

Children coming to school with little to no food in their lunch bag, staff warn

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer must scrap the two-child benefit cap

Letters: Dr Jonathan J Ross points out that removing VAT relief from private schools would raise more than lifting the cap would cost. Plus letters from Richard Morgan and Peter Brooker

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