Child and working-age poverty from 2010 to 2020

Published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this report forecasts poverty for children and working age adults in the UK for each year between 2010-11 and 2015-16, and for 2020-21. It accounts for all announced tax and benefit policies, including Universal Credit, and incorporates the latest official economic and demographic forecasts. The report uses two of the four measures of poverty defined in the Child Poverty Act (2010). It suggests that current policies will leave almost a quarter of Britain's children in poverty by the end of this decade.