Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Work and Pensions Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 12 Jan 2021 Closed: 2 Feb 2022 Parliament page
This inquiry is looking at children in poverty. This is a complex subject, so the Committee’s work will be in several parts. For the first part of the inquiry, we are interested in finding out: - how child poverty can most accurately be measured and defined - what the impact … Read more
22 Recommendations
15 Conclusions
1 Report
5 Oral sessions
1 Letter
5 Events
Activity timeline 8 events
6 Dec
2021
Report published
22 Sep
2021
Report published
16 Jul
2021
Correspondence
23 Jun
2021
Oral evidence
26 May
2021
Oral evidence
12 May
2021
Oral evidence
14 Apr
2021
Oral evidence
3 Mar
2021
Oral evidence
Oral evidence sessions 5 sessions
23 Jun 2021
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Work and Pensions Committee
Donna Ward · Department for Work and Pensions Elaine Squires · Department for Work and Pensions Will Quince MP · Department for Education
26 May 2021
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Work and Pensions
Anne Longfield Bruce Adamson Ed Humpherson · UK Statistics Authority Mike Brewer · Resolution Foundation Robert Joyce · Institute for Fiscal Studies The Baroness Stroud · Social Metrics Commission
12 May 2021
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Charlotte Ramsden · Association of Directors of Children’s Services Gavin Mullin · Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council Peter Tutton · StepChange Sabine Goodwin · Independent Food Aid Network Una Summerson · Contact-for families with disabled children Will Tuckley · London Borough of Tower Hamlets
14 Apr 2021
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Work and Pensions Committee
Charlotte McDonough · Save the Children Professor David Taylor-Robinson · University of Liverpool Professor Paul Bywaters · University of Huddersfield Rebecca Jacques · Children’s Society Sophie Howes · Child Poverty Action Group Yasmin Rehman · Juno Women’s Aid
3 Mar 2021
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Work and Pensions Committee
Dr Jose Manuel Roche · University of Oxford Dr Keetie Roelen · Institute of Development Studies Dr Kitty Stewart · London School of Economics & Political Science Edward Davies · Centre for Social Justice Helen Barnard · The Trussell Trust
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Third Report - Children in poverty: Measurement and targets HC 188 22 Sep 2021 37 Responded
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 result
Clear
2 Recommendation Accepted in Part
Third Report - Children in poverty…
We recommend that DWP publishes a detailed and full response to all the recommendations made...
We recommend that DWP publishes a detailed and full response to all the recommendations made by the Office for Statistics Regulation in its review of income- based poverty statistics by March 2022. (Paragraph 11) Defining child poverty, identifying its causes … Read more
Government Response
The government states a Cross-Government Income and Earnings Coherence Steering Group, chaired by ONS, will respond to OSR's recommendations and has published the first version of its workplan on 14 October, though it doesn't explicitly confirm DWP published a detailed response by the March 2022 deadline.
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Government Response AI assessment · 37 of 22 classified
Accepted 8
Accepted in Part 1
Acknowledged 8
Deferred 9
Not Addressed 9
Rejected 2
Total 22 recs + 15 conclusions
Correspondence 1 letter
16 Jul 2021 Correspondence with Minister for Welfare Delivery - follow up on oral evidence on Children in poverty: Measurements and targets
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