Children in poverty: Measurement and targets
Work and Pensions Committee
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Inquiry
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 …
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22
Recommendations
15
Conclusions
1
Report
5
Oral sessions
1
Letter
5
Events
Activity timeline 8 events
6 Dec
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22 Sep
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Report published
16 Jul
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23 Jun
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Oral evidence
26 May
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Oral evidence
12 May
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Oral evidence
14 Apr
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Oral evidence
3 Mar
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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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Work and Pensions
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
Reports 1 report · click to expand
| Title | HC No. | Published | Items | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Report - Children in poverty: Measurement and targets | HC 188 | 22 Sep 2021 | 37 | Responded |
Recommendations & Conclusions
2 results
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Conclusion
Rejected
Third Report - Children in poverty…
Local level data on child income poverty is important to enable national and local governments...
Local level data on child income poverty is important to enable national and local governments to plan their services. DWP’s recent work with HMRC to produce local area estimates of children in low income families is welcome, but its usefulness …
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Government Response
The government rejected the implied need to include housing costs in child income poverty estimates, stating there is no single administrative data source and DWP has no immediate plans to undertake the significant development work required.
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Recommendation
Rejected
Third Report - Children in poverty…
We recommend that DWP works with external academics, local authorities and other government departments to...
We recommend that DWP works with external academics, local authorities and other government departments to identify options for reflecting the cost of housing in its local area estimates of children in low income families. DWP should write to us by …
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Government Response
The government rejected the recommendation, stating there are no immediate plans to take this forward due to the lack of a single data source for housing costs and other statistical development priorities.
Department for Work and Pensions
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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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