Tackling child poverty delivery plan: fourth year progress report 2021-2022 - focus report on households with babies under one

Evidence about child poverty in households with a baby under one. The report presents the latest data on the child poverty targets and includes further evidence on the drivers of child poverty among this priority group.


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2. The statistics in this report refer to households, which means they refer to everyone who lives in the same household, and not just the core family of one or two parents and their dependent children. Additional people in the same household could include grown-up siblings, grandparents or lodgers, should they live at the same address and share living spaces.

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4. Please note that this figure is measured at the benefit unit, rather than household level, and for benefit units with a child under five rather than under one.

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