Work and Pensions Committee: Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy
Committee hears from witnesses
The Work and Pensions Committee is holding oral evidence sessions to examine how well the government is delivering on its Child Poverty Strategy. The inquiry will scrutinise whether current policies and spending commitments are actually reducing child poverty and whether the strategy's goals are being met in practice.
Child poverty affects millions of families across the UK. This inquiry matters because it will assess whether government policy is working and hold ministers and officials to account for delivering measurable improvements in children's living standards and life chances.
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