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Progress to date on the child poverty reduction targets
The table below shows the three primary poverty measures, the baseline measured rates as of June 2018, the most recent measured rates (for 2024/25), the third intermediate targets, and the 10-year targets.
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Primary child poverty measure |
Baseline 2017/18 measured rates |
2024/25 measured rates |
Third intermediate 3-year target rates (2026/27) |
10-year target rates (2027/28) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Material hardship The proportion of children living in households in material hardship |
13.3% |
14.3% |
11% |
6% |
|
After-housing-costs, fixed-line measure (AHC50) The proportion of children living in households with incomes less than 50% of the median income in 2018, after deducting housing costs and adjusting for inflation
|
22.8% |
17.8% |
14% |
10% |
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Before-housing-costs, moving-line measure (BHC50) The proportion of children in households with disposable incomes less than 50% of the median income in a given year
|
16.5% |
12.6% |
12% |
5% |
Information about the first and second sets of three year intermediate targets, as set in 2021 and 2019
Second set of three year intermediate targets:
By 2023/24, the Government aimed to reduce the proportion of children in:
- low-income households on the before-housing-costs measure to 10 percent
- low income households on the after-housing costs measure to 15 percent
- material hardship to 9 percent.
First set of three year intermediate targets:
By 2020/21, the Government aimed to reduce the proportion of children in:
- low income households on the before housing costs primary measure from 16.5 percent of children to 10.5 percent
- low income households on the after housing costs primary measure from 22.8 percent of children to 18.8 percent
- material hardship from 13.3 percent of children to 10.3 percent.