Led by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) to mark the sixtieth anniversary of child benefits, the 'Make Child Benefit Count' campaign calls for the youngest child in a family to get the same rate as the oldest child.
The present rate of child benefit amounts to 17.45 a week for the first child and 11.70 a week for the second and all subsequent children.
In the report, 'Child benefit: fit for the future', published by the CPAG to coincide with the campaign's launch, the organisation says that increasing child benefit and paying it at the same rate for all children would help to assist larger families. This is vital if the Government is to meet its targets to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it by 2020.
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