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Child Poverty Strategy

This collection brings together publications related to the Child Poverty Strategy 2025.

This collection brings together the UK Government’s Child Poverty Strategy with accompanying evidence, statistics and analysis informing its development and ongoing delivery, monitoring and evaluation. 

In July 2024 the Prime Minister announced the creation of the Child Poverty Taskforce to deliver a lasting reduction in child poverty this Parliament through an ambitious 10-year strategy. The Taskforce, supported by the Child Poverty Unit in the Cabinet Office,  worked extensively across government and with external stakeholders to build a comprehensive evidence base, listening to children and families with lived experience, to develop a package of policies which tackle the structural and root causes of child poverty.

The government’s Child Poverty Strategy sets out the steps we are taking to reduce child poverty in the short term, as well as putting in place the building blocks we need to change the course we’re on and create long-term change. The strategy brings together the action the government has already taken, alongside new measures, to increase incomes, reduce essential costs and strengthen local services.

The Strategy and accompanying materials also outline how we will hold ourselves to account on delivering the impact we have promised through this Parliament and beyond through a robust approach to delivery, monitoring and evaluation.

The Child Poverty Strategy is UK wide and will deliver for children across all four nations.

The Strategy

Evidence narrative and statistics

Summary of key evidence and statistics informing the development of the Child Poverty Strategy.

Research

Research commissioned to inform the development and ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy.

Impacts analysis

Publications relating to the analysis of the impacts of the planned policies in the Child Poverty Strategy.

Low income poverty projections analysis

This analysis collection includes DWP’s projections of future low income poverty trends.

Monitoring and evaluation

These publications relate to the ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the Strategy, to track delivery and progress throughout the 10-year period.

Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel

The terms of reference and panel membership for the Child Poverty Expert Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel

Updates to this page

Published 5 December 2025
Last updated 9 July 2026 Show all updates
  1. The collection page has had a restructure and new publications added. Added the following headings: 'Evidence Narrative and Statistics,' 'Research,' 'Impacts Analysis,' 'Low Income Poverty Projections Analysis,' 'Monitoring and Evaluation,' and 'Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel.' Removed the previous heading 'Supporting Documents.' Added new publications 'Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty - Monitoring and Evaluation baseline report' and 'Child Poverty Expert Analytical Panel.'

  2. Added 'Child Poverty Strategy: Child Rights' impact assessment to the list of supporting documents.

  3. Added 'Low Income Poverty Projections Analysis' to the list of supporting documents.

  4. Added 'Child Poverty Strategy: Research with Children' to Supporting documents.

  5. First published.