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Child Poverty Strategy

The Child Poverty Strategy is a joint Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions initiative to develop and implement policies reducing child poverty in the UK. The government has established a Child Poverty Taskforce to coordinate efforts, and Parliament is scrutinizing the government's concrete policy proposals and cross-departmental coordination, including specific action in Scotland.

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2026

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29 Apr 2026 | Written question Department for Work and Pensions linked

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 24 March (HL15644), what assessment the Minister for the Civil Service has made of whether the

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent on 24 March (HL15644), what assessment the Minister for the Civil Service has made of whether the Child Poverty Strategy complies with the Civil Service

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13 Mar 2026 | Policy paper Cabinet Office linked

Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty

Strategy document setting out the government’s ambitious decade long mission to tackle the drivers of child poverty across the UK.

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2025

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2024

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23 Oct 2024 | Announcement Department for Work and Pensions linked

Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy

UIN: HCWS158 Today, my right Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education (The Rt Hon Bridget Phillipson), and I are pleased to announce that we are publishing ‘Tackling Child Poverty: Developing our strategy’.Since 2010, child poverty has increased by …

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23 Oct 2024 | Announcement Department for Work and Pensions linked

Tackling Child Poverty: Developing Our Strategy

UIN: HLWS156 My Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (The Rt Hon Liz Kendall MP) has made the following Written Statement.Today, my right Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education (The Rt Hon Bridget …

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2021

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2017

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2014

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2010

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22 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill (Programme) (No. 2)

Motion made, and Question put forthwith (Standing Order No. 83A(7)) , That the following provisions shall apply to the Child Poverty Bill for the purpose of supplementing the Order of 20 July 2009 in the last Session of Parliament (Child …

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22 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Consideration of Lords amendments 19:23:00 The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Timms): I beg to move, That this House agrees with Lords amendment 1. Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Alan Haselhurst): With this is will be convenient to take …

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17 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Third Reading 18:39:00 Clause 1 : The 2010 poverty target Page 1, line 10, leave out from “the” to end of line and insert “relevant income group for the purpose of section 3 (the relative low income target)” The Parliamentary …

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9 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Report 15:16:00 Amendment 1 had been retabled as Amendment 1A. Amendment 1A Moved by 1A: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— “2010 poverty target (1) The Secretary of State must, as soon as reasonably practicable after the end …

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9 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Report (Continued) 20:35:00 Amendment 17 Moved by 17: Clause 8, page 4, line 26, at end insert— “( ) When considering taking any measures under subsection (5)(b), the Secretary of State must take account of the likelihood of disproportionate spending …

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2 Mar 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Order of Consideration Motion 15:08:00 Moved By Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton: That the amendments for the Report stage be marshalled and considered in the following order: Clauses 1 to 7, Schedule 1, Clauses 8 to 16, Schedule 2, Clauses 17 …

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8 Feb 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Committee (5th Day) 15:30:00 The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen): My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung …

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27 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Committee (4th Day) 15:45:00 The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Viscount Ullswater): My Lords, if there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung and will resume …

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25 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Committee (3rd Day) 15:31:00 Schedule 1 : The Child Poverty Commission Amendment 22 Moved by 22: Schedule 1, page 18, line 5, at end insert— “( ) the member is unfit for office by reason of misconduct,( ) the member …

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21 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Committee (2nd Day) 14:00:00 Clause 6 : Interpretation of terms used in relation to targets Amendment 9 Moved by 9: Clause 6, page 3, line 9, at end insert— “(ba) the circumstances in which a child living in communal accommodation …

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19 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Committee (1st Day) 15:31:00 Amendment 1 Moved by 1: Before Clause 1, insert the following new Clause— “2010 child poverty target (1) The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of three months beginning with the day …

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14 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Order of Consideration Motion 11:53:00 Moved By Lord McKenzie of Luton: That it be an instruction to the Grand Committee to which the Child Poverty Bill has been committed that they consider the bill in the following order: Clauses 1 …

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5 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Second Reading 15:36:00 Moved By Lord McKenzie of Luton: That the Bill be read a second time. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government & Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): My Lords, …

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5 Jan 2010 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

Second Reading (Continued) 18:23:00 The Lord Bishop of Leicester: My Lords, in spite of our discussions on climate change and terrorism, the debate that now resumes on the Child Poverty Bill is surely a matter of equal moment to our …

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2009

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9 Dec 2009 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

[Relevant Document: The Twenty-eighth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2008-09, Legislative Scrutiny: Child Poverty Bill, HC 1114.] Consideration of Bill New Clause 1 The relative low income after housing costs target ‘(1) The relative low …

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20 Jul 2009 | Bill stage HM Treasury linked

Child Poverty Bill

[Relevant Documents: The transcript of oral evidence taken before the Work and Pensions Committee on 17 June 2009 on Child Poverty, HC 702; Second Report of the Work and Pensions Committee, Session 2007-08, HC 42-I, on The best start in …

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