Income poverty data on children whose parents have no recourse to public funds is limited. DWP’s Family Resources Survey picks up very small numbers of these children and the Department does not collect significant administrative data on them because their parents are not normally entitled to its benefits and services. This blind-spot in DWP’s understanding of children in poverty is not sustainable. As a Department with responsibility for poverty and disadvantage it falls to DWP to conduct research and analysis for all of society, including for children of families with no recourse to public funds. We expect to return to this issue later in 2021.