Child Poverty Rates ‘Strongly Correlated’ With 2-Child Universal Credit Cap: Report

Child poverty is “directly and strongly correlated” with the percentage of children within a constituency affected by the two-child limit on claiming Universal Credit, analysis shows. Researchers from Loughborough University’s Centre for Research in Social Policy, which produced the analysis for the End Child Poverty Coalition, said the correlation provided “further evidence” that the cap was a “key driver” of child poverty. The report published on Thursday said: “Constituency-level child poverty rates are directly and strongly correlated with the percentage of children affected by the two-child limit in that local area, providing further evidence that the policy is a key driver of child poverty....