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The new clauses would ensure that it is clear whether a difference has been made. How many children’s lives are improved by the removal of the two-child limit? How many more children’s lives are improved by the removal of the benefit cap? How much of an effect does that have on school readiness, for example? Some of the background information to the child poverty strategy considers a number of studies of school readiness and whether giving people additional money and an income boost assists in readying children for school—a number of studies have found that it does. Maybe there has not been a specific study to consider whether the two-child limit has had an impact on school readiness, but we know that giving families extra money means that children are more likely to be school-ready. Given that the measures would give families extra money, we can draw the conclusion that their children are more likely to be school-ready as a result.