How should child poverty in the UK be defined? And how should it be measured?
These are questions being considered by the UK Parliament’s cross-party Work and Pensions Committee in their inquiry ‘Children in poverty: Measurement and targets’. Over the course of the next few weeks, the committee is taking evidence from representatives of anti-poverty organisations, researchers and other witnesses to reflect on current practice regarding monitoring child poverty in the UK. As part of its first oral evidence session, I was asked to give evidence in relation to international practice of measuring child poverty.
So how is child poverty currently monitored in the UK?
All measures of child poverty trending downwards , reflecting Jacinda Ardern s policies
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Judith Collins and Jacinda Ardern will face off in Parliament today. “That would have been among the least likely of outcomes that I would have expected at that point. You know, through into the middle of last year we had some very scary forecasts as to what might happen to the New Zealand economy.” The other big piece of news coming on Tuesday will be the Child Poverty statistics for the year ended June 2020. As Part of the Child Poverty Reduction Act, the aim of which is to is “to help achieve a significant and sustained reduction in child poverty in New Zealand,” the Government has to report once a year on its progress towards achieving a mixture of three year and five year goals.