Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Will Quince MP (Minister for Welfare Delivery at Department for Work and Pensions), Donna Ward (Director of Poverty, Family and Disadvantage at Department for Work and Pensions), and Elaine Squires (Deputy Director for Income, Family and Disadvantage Analysis at Department for Work and Pensions)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Anne Longfield (Campaigner for children and Children’s Commissioner for England 2015 - 2021), and Bruce Adamson (Children and Young People’s Commissioner for Scotland)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Baroness Stroud (Chair of the Social Metrics Commission, and Chief Executive Officer of the Legatum Institute at Social Metrics Commission), Mike Brewer (Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Economist at Resolution Foundation), Robert Joyce (Deputy Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies), and Ed Humpherson (Director General for Regulation at Office for Statistics Regulation)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Sabine Goodwin (Co-ordinator at Independent Food Aid Network), Peter Tutton (Head of Policy, Research and Public Affairs at StepChange), and Una Summerson (Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Contact-for families with disabled children)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Will Tuckley (Chief Executive at London Borough of Tower Hamlets), Charlotte Ramsden (President at Association of Directors of Children’s Services, and Strategic Director for People at Salford City Council), and Gavin Mullin (Commissioning Officer (Children and Families) at Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Rebecca Jacques (Policy Officer at Children’s Society), Charlotte McDonough (Policy Adviser at Save the Children), and Sophie Howes (Head of Policy at Child Poverty Action Group)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Professor Paul Bywaters (Professor of Social Work at University of Huddersfield), Professor David Taylor-Robinson (Professor of Public Health and Policy at University of Liverpool), and Yasmin Rehman (Chief Executive Officer at Juno Women’s Aid)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Dr Kitty Stewart (Associate Professor of Social Policy and Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at London School of Economics & Political Science), Edward Davies (Policy Director at Centre for Social Justice), and Helen Barnard (Director at Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

Inquiry Children in poverty: Measurement and targets

Witnesses Dr Keetie Roelen (Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Protection at Institute of Development Studies), and Dr Jose Manuel Roche (Research Associate Department of International Development at University of Oxford)