Poverty facts and figures

Child Poverty: the Stats
Analysis of the latest poverty statistics

• This briefing examines the latest available income poverty and material deprivation data to show which groups of children experience poverty. It also looks at where policy has got to and what more is needed to tackle child poverty.
  
• Download Child poverty: the stats (October 2008) (236 KB PDF file)

Households Below Average Income statistics
The key source of data on income poverty and material deprivation, Households Below Average Incomes (HBAI) is published annually by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). It provides the data which is used to measure progress against the Government's target to halve child poverty by 2010/11 and eradicate it by 2020. The latest issue covers the period 1994/5 to 2006/07.

Read CPAG's press release commenting on the latest issue.
Britain’s child poverty shame must end
(press release, 10 June 2008)

Visit the DWP website to see findings from the latest issue. http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai/hbai2007/contents.asp

Poverty information on local areas: the Child Poverty Toolkit
The Child Poverty Toolkit is a key resource developed by CPAG and Inclusion to help local authorities analyse child poverty in their areas and develop their child poverty strategy. The site has local data, policy and strategy briefs and examples of best practice. Visit the Child Poverty Toolkit website

More poverty statistics
See the Useful Links section for key statistical sites. Think tanks and academic and research sites often publish research and statistical information relating to poverty and social exclusion.

CPAG's manifesto to eradicate child poverty

• Download our policy proposals in full – manifesto (202 KB pdf file), 36 pages
• Download a summary - 10 steps to a society free of child poverty (leaflet 471 KB pdf file)
  
• Download the Scottish edition – Scottish manifesto (180 KB pdf file)

Poverty: the facts is CPAG's comprehensive overview of poverty in the UK. The 5th edition was published in March 2004.
More details on Poverty: the facts

News from CPAG by email
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Poverty magazine
Poverty is CPAG's membership journal, published 3 times a year. It provides essential analysis and debate on Britain's changing social and economic landscape. View selected Poverty articles

CPAG briefings
Policy briefings
Welfare rights briefings
CPAG in Scotland consultation responses

For enquiries about CPAG policies and poverty in the UK, email info@cpag.org.uk

Archived facts and figures

Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 2005/6

• Visit the DWP website to see findings from the 2005/06 issue. http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai/hbai2006/contents.asp

• CPAG's response:
  Complacent strategy risks not ‘working for children’ as child poverty rises
  (press release, 27 March 2007)

• CPAG's media briefing:
  Meeting the Government's Child Poverty Target: progress to date summarises key facts and figures from the 2005/06 issue. Download CPAG's briefing (120 KB PDF file)
  
  
• Explanatory note
  CPAG has produced an explanatory note of a series of changes made in the 2005/06 issue that affect the numbers and the groups of children counted as poor. To read more, download the full Word document (53KB)

Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 2005/06

• A digest of key results from the period 1994/5 to 2004/05.
  http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/hbai/hbai2005/contents.asp

• CPAG's response:
  Child poverty target: campaigners disappointed but Ministers urged to make faster progress
  (press release, 9 March 2006)

  CPAG media briefing:
  The Government’s child poverty target (190 KB pdf file)

• Download a 4-page summary of Poverty: the facts 5th edition (56KB pdf file) published March 2004
• Download a 4-page summary of Poverty: the facts 4th edition (193KB pdf file) published December 2001