1 in 4 children in the UK are growing up in poverty. It doesn’t have to be like this.
We work to understand what causes poverty, the impact it has on children’s lives, and how it can be solved – for good.
We also provide accurate information, training and advice to the people who work with hard-up families, to make sure they get the financial support they need.
www.cpag.org.ukGrants
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Increasing capability to challenge unlawful decisions
Grant: £103,086
July 4, 2018
Increasing legal knowledge and capability among non-legal professionals to challenge unlawful decisions.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| People Working in the Law | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Ask CPAG – access to justice through technology for social security claimants
Grant: £186,043
November 10, 2017
This project will develop a new, subscription-access digital services platform for advisers to navigate the social security system, which has seen the biggest change since its inception with the introduction of Universal Credit; assess clients’ entitlement to financial support, and challenge decisions, through delivery of:
- Expanded Ask CPAG content, providing tactical online support to advisers on problematic areas of social security law. It will develop professional tools such as wizards and a pro-forma letter tool to aid advisers. The automated production of letters to challenge decisions will be generated by evidence provided by the adviser, in combination with a legal framework that we will devise.
- The redevelopment of the online version of CPAG publications, specifically the Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook and supporting handbooks.
- The online publication of CPAG’s Welfare Rights Bulletin, which currently goes to over 1,700 organisations or individuals in its printed form.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| People Working in the Law | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Ask CPAG – access to justice through technology for social security claimants
Grant: £21,300
November 9, 2016
This project will provide advisers with comprehensive, interrelated online resources to help navigate the government’s wide-ranging welfare reforms.
This online system will enable advisers to assess their clients’ entitlement to social security benefits and give them resources to challenge unfavourable decisions.
This will be done through three interrelated channels:
- The expansion of Ask CPAG content, which provides tactical online support to advisers on problematic areas of social security law by developing two innovative online tools to assist advisers through ‘Guided pathways’.
- The redevelopment of the online version of Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits Handbook.
- The online publication of the Welfare Rights Bulletin.
| Increase Public Understanding | Advance High Quality Thinking | Increase Access to Employment |
| People Working in the Law | ||
| Implications of Brexit | Legal Needs in Healthcare Settings | Influence the Online Court |
| Develop Robust Evidence Base | ||
| Understand Role of Technology | ||
| Law Reform, Policy and Regulation | ||
| Communications to Disseminate Learning | ||
