The Child Poverty Strategy

Date published: 25 March 2016

The Executive’s Child Poverty Strategy, published in March 2016, sets out the vision to eradicate child poverty in the future. The aims of the strategy are to: reduce the number of children in poverty; and reduce the impact of living in poverty on children (their lives and life chances). The Strategy sets out our goals to ensure programmes and policies provide extra support for children in poverty, improve outcomes for children in low-income families and take children out of poverty.

The Executive agreed to extend the 2016 -2019 Child Poverty Strategy to May 2022. The purpose of this extension is to allow time for key stakeholders to be consulted on whether the Anti-Poverty Strategy covering all age groups is sufficient or whether the development of a Child Poverty Strategy is also required.

The Action Plan accompanying the Strategy has also been updated to reflect ongoing priorities and programmes tackling child poverty and its impacts.

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