Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy

Work and Pensions Committee Open Inquiry
Opened: 29 Jan 2026 Parliament page
Members of the Education and Work and Pensions Select Committees have decided to undertake an inquiry that will consider how the Government can ensure it will deliver a successful Child Poverty Strategy. On 5 December 2025, the Government published its Child Poverty Strategy , which it estimates will lift 550,000 … Read more
3 Oral sessions
1 Letter
3 Events
Activity timeline 7 events
3 Jun
2026
Oral evidence
3 Jun
2026
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
15 Apr
2026
Oral evidence
15 Apr
2026
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
14 Apr
2026
Correspondence
24 Mar
2026
Oral evidence
24 Mar
2026
Formal meeting (oral evidence session) · The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Oral evidence sessions 3 sessions
3 Jun 2026
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Work and Pensions Committee
Annabel Smith · West of England Combined Authority Azmina Siddique · The Children's Society Beatrice Orchard · Trussell Charis Chittick · One Parent Families Scotland George Looker · Babyzone Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz · Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium Lynn Perry · Barnardo’s Tom Drake · EFL in the Community
15 Apr 2026
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Work and Pensions Committee
Alun Francis OBE · Social Mobility Commission Baroness Ruth Lister · Loughborough University Carl Cullinane · Sutton Trust Daniel Lilley · Centre for Social Justice Dr Matt Barnes · City St George’s, University of London Edward McPherson · WPI Economics Professor Ruth Patrick · University of Glasgow
24 Mar 2026
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Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy
Dame Rachel de Souza DBE · Children's Commissioner for England Laura Hutchinson · Citizens Advice Mr Henry Parkes · Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Priya Edwards · Save the Children UK Thomas Cave · Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
Correspondence 1 letter
14 Apr 2026 To committee Letter from the Children's Commissioner on Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy 31.03.26
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