Latest from Child Poverty Action Group

Election 2020: What's the plan for welfare and child poverty? Policies compared

Labour is offering the carrot, National the stick, and other parties want a new approach.

Milestone of 26 weeks' paid parental leave has been reached - so what's next?

Campaigners now want higher weekly payments and more flexibility for partners.

Kathryn's story: Child homicide, fraud, and an insurmountable debt

Kathryn died in September with a fraud conviction and a $117,000 debt hanging over her.

They say they're flatmates. Winz says otherwise

They were two friends sharing a flat. But Work and Income thought otherwise.

Beneficiaries penalised for falling in love

Jacinda Ardern is being asked to drop penalties for beneficiaries who start relationships.

Left behind: School survey finds gulf in kids' internet access at home

A survey has found a huge digital divide between schoolchildren in rich and poor areas.

Big schools vow to fight loss of schools' powers

School boards glad to lose "compliance" role so they can focus on students.

Comment: Let's not forget another September anniversary

We were world leaders on social security in 1938. We can be so again, argues Mike O'Brien

Parents dump holiday kids at libraries

Warning for parents amid cases of children being left alone: 'We're not a daycare.'

Disabled kids' allowance missing target

Child advocates call for access to be simplified

One-night-stand penalty may be wiped

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.

Tighter rules cut 20,000 out of student allowances

More than 20,000 students are missing out on student allowances because of tighter eligibility rules since 2010, a new report says.

Michael Timmins: Why do we fail our children?

The In Work Tax Credit fails children and is a policy that cannot be justified, writes Michael Timmins. Its operation is so complicated and ultimately punitive in that its costs outweigh any supposed benefits.

Michael Timmins: Children at the heart of better policy

The Government's 2015 Budget had at its centerpiece a push towards "compassionate conservatism", writes Michael Timmins. While more compassion is indeed welcome, the end result is mere tokenism.

Child poverty: Still work to be done

A group which campaigns against child poverty says while it is heartening to see an increase in beneficiary incomes for the first time in over 40 years, there is still work to be done.

Warning against tax cuts

Child poverty campaigners say the Budget has “broken the mould” of austerity – but say any fiscal surpluses in the next few years should be used to relieve the country’s unjust “social deficit”, not to cut taxes.