PM Keir Starmer speaks with parents and children during a visit to a nursery in central London ahead of his speech on backing the Budget, welfare reform and the scrapping of the two-child limit, on December 1.

The government unveiled its long-awaited child poverty strategy overnight – but it has split opinion, with some critics fearing it is not ambitious enough.

Child poverty has been a sticking point for Labour, especially after the government chose to extend the Tory policy of introducing the two-child benefit cap last July.

Considering there are 4.5 million children living in poverty in the UK, this was a highly controversial move.

The government insisted it did not have enough money to lift the cap but, as HuffPost UK reported, even initiatives like baby banks meant to help infants are expected to struggle this winter.

Labour has now since decided to make addressing child poverty a priority and attempt to lift half a million children out of hardship by the end of this parliament.

Here’s what you need to know.

What’s in the government’s new child poverty strategy?

The two-child benefit cap will be scrapped from April, as chancellor Rachel Reeves announced in her Budget last week.

This will cost an estimated £3 billion, and is meant to lift 450,000 children out of poverty by 2030.

Labour will also provide upfront........

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