Recommendation 12

DWP’s key collections of income-related poverty and wider social deprivation statistics are all published separately. The Office for National Statistics also publishes separate statistics on household income. There is no consolidated publication and no clear narrative setting out how the measures all link together. The current arrangements are a missed opportunity to develop and present a comprehensive and coherent measurement framework which brings core income-related measures of child poverty alongside a wider set of dimensions or social deprivations reflecting the consequences and causes of that poverty. (Paragraph 53) 52 Children in poverty: Measurement and targets