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Education Committee and Work and Pensions Committee

14 July 2026

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Chairs open the joint inquiry, ministers set out the child poverty strategy’s headline goal to lift 550,000 children out of poverty by 2030, and officials explain the reliance on removing the two‑child limit, new deep poverty metrics and long‑term modelling that currently shows progress plateauing after 2029.

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Opening, strategy objectives and impact modelling

00:05

Opening of joint inquiry and aims

00:05

Headline target, two‑child limit and deep poverty metrics

01:55

Projections stalling after 2029 and modelling limits

08:19

Cross‑government governance and ministerial accountability

10:30

Governance — inter‑ministerial group and DWP child poverty unit

10:30

Role and remit of the inter‑ministerial group

14:41

Ambition level, statutory targets and lessons from 2010 Act

16:57

Ambition and rejection of statutory poverty targets

16:57

Debate on impact of removing 2010 targets

27:07

Ten‑year strategy implementation, evaluation and priority groups

32:05

Ten‑year horizon, policy evolution and local delivery

32:05

Annual monitoring, evaluation and independent scrutiny

38:15

Lived experience and differential impacts across groups

41:00

High‑risk family groups and intersectionality of poverty

46:03

Migration status, work incentives, social security and housing

51:21

Children with no recourse to public funds and Home Office policy

51:21

Employment as a route out of poverty and Universal Credit design

58:02

Benefit cap policy and devolved child payments

01:04:33

Housing costs, Local Housing Allowance and temporary accommodation

01:07:29

Childcare, school food provision and education pathways out of poverty

01:12:28

Childcare expansion, early years review and parents in study or training

01:12:28

Free school meals, breakfast clubs and implementation challenges

01:17:31

Curriculum, NEETs and careers support in tackling child poverty

01:23:31

Regional disparities, local delivery and closing remarks

01:29:15

Regional disparities, non‑devolved areas and closing the session

01:29:15

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Education Committee and Work and Pensions Committee

14 July 2026

Education Committee and Work and Pensions Committee Tue, 14 Jul 2026 House of Commons

00:04 - 00:45

Speaker 8

Welcome to this oral evidence session, which is a joint evidence session of the Education Select Committee and the Work and Pensions Select Committee. This is the final evidence session in the joint inquiry of the two committees on child poverty, scrutinising the government's child poverty strategy, and we are pleased this morning to welcome ministers from both the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions, together with officials from the Department for Work and Pensions, to answer questions from members. Ministers, can I ask you to introduce yourselves and then perhaps the officials after that, perhaps starting with you, Liv Bailey, if that's okay?

00:45 - 00:54

Speaker 1

Hello, I'm really pleased to be here today, nice to see you all. I'm Liv Bailey, I'm Minister for Early Education in the Department for Education, and I co-chair the child poverty inter-ministerial group with Diana.

00:54 - 01:08

Speaker 4

And I'm Diana Johnson, I'm the Minister for Education, sorry, the Minister for Education, the Minister for Employment in the Department of Work and Pensions and co-chair the inter-ministerial group with Liv.

01:08 - 01:18

Speaker 3

I'm James Wolfe, I'm the Director for Poverty and Universal Credit Policy in DWP, and previously I was a director in the child poverty unit in the Cabinet Office.

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