Angela Rayner has refused to say if the government plans to scrap the two child cap on benefits. The deputy prime minister said: "We're looking at all the different issues that affect child poverty. What we inherited was child poverty on the increase. We will be coming forward with our strategy later this year." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We have a child strategy between the government task force and we're looking at all the different
00:06issues that affect child poverty. What we inherited was child poverty on the increase but we know that
00:12housing costs, good employment, these are also factors to ensuring that children are out of poverty
00:18and we will be coming forward with our strategy later this year. We've been looking at housing
00:22for example the work that I'm doing, we've seen levels of homelessness increase, we've brought in
00:28the ending of section 21 no fault evictions which will support children. We've got 165,000 children
00:35in temporary accommodation, those costs are spiralling. That's just one element which I'm
00:39aware of in my department which will help alleviate child poverty and we're already taking action on
00:44that but we'll outline the whole government response to it later this year.