A new report sets the 2024/25 baseline position – the starting point for child poverty before the Child Poverty Strategy was published in December 2025 – and outlines how progress will be measured over the strategy's 10 years. 

Work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, said: ‘This baseline report shows we are taking a serious, evidence-led approach to tackling child poverty, driving forward the change that gives every child the security and opportunity to thrive.'

Progress will be measured against relative low income after housing costs and deep material poverty. 

Tracking progress includes a study of parents and carers in or near poverty over four years, which will look at how families' circumstances, incomes and sources of support change.

A new Interministerial Group on child poverty will provide cross government support alongside continued collaboration with devolved governments, regional and local partners, civil society, business and faith groups as well as those with lived experience of poverty.