This paper analyses the key trends in child poverty in Britain, with particular focus on changes since the late 1990s … families with children have stagnated or declined: further reductions in the headline relative income poverty measure since the … additional reductions in child poverty that are in theory legally required under the Child Poverty Act, in light of the heavy …

is in paid work. Working households comprised 37% of those below the official poverty line in 1994-95 and 58% in 2017 …-18. Much of that increase is due to trends that seem straightforwardly positive: lower poverty rates among pensioners and … rate of poverty in house holds where someone works. We examine the reason for the increased in-work relative poverty rate …

2016, to estimate the impact of the reform on women's incomes, income poverty rates and measures of material deprivation … for lower-income women. These reductions in income lead to the absolute income poverty rate of women aged 60-62, who are … now under the state pension age, increasing by 6.4 percentage points. However, the increased risk of poverty does not …

visits by trained social workers to households in extreme poverty with preferential access to social programs. We use a … that this major national program is likely to fail in making a significant contribution to reducing extreme poverty. We …