Committees

Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy

Inquiry

The Education and Work and Pensions Committees are examining the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy. The Strategy aims to lift 550,000 children out of poverty, and the Committees will look at whether this is ambitious enough and how the Strategy could be strengthened.

You can submit evidence until 23:59 on 6 March 2026.

Read the call for evidence for more detail about the inquiry

This inquiry is no longer accepting evidence

The deadline for submissions was 11:59pm on 6 March 2026.

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Past events

Tuesday 14 July 2026
10:00am Public
Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy - Oral evidence 14 July 2026
10:00am
  • Olivia Bailey MP (Minister for Early Education at Department for Education)
  • Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP (Minister for Employment at Department for Work & Pensions)
  • James Wolfe (Director, Universal Credit, Families and Poverty, Lead Director for the Child Poverty Strategy at Department for Work & Pensions)
  • Elaine Squires (Deputy Director for Income, Family and Disadvantage Analysis Lead Analyst for the Child Poverty Strategy at Department for Work & Pensions)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 1 July 2026
9:30am Public
Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy - Oral evidence 1 July 2026
9:30am
  • Sahar Khan (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Rachel Luke (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Ella-Mae Michalski (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Samantha Richards (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Jonathan Paul Roberts (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Tayyaba Siddiqui (Parent at Changing Realities)
  • Caroline Rice (Parent at Changing Realities)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 3 June 2026
9:30am Public
Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy - Oral evidence 3 June 2026
9:30am
  • Tom Drake (Business Head of Community Projects at EFL in the Community)
  • Beatrice Orchard (Head of Programme at Trussell)
  • George Looker (Chief Executive Officer at Babyzone)
  • Annabel Smith (Director of Strategic Partnerships and Stakeholders at West of England Combined Authority)
10:30am
  • Charis Chittick (Head of Policy, Strategy and Communications at One Parent Families Scotland)
  • Josephine Whitaker-Yilmaz (Head of Advocacy, Praxis and Chair, No Recourse to Public Funds subgroup at Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium)
  • Lynn Perry (Chief Executive Officer at Barnardo’s)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House
Wednesday 15 April 2026
9:30am Public
Realising potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy - Oral evidence 15 April 2026
9:30am
  • Baroness Ruth Lister (Emeritus professor of social policy at Loughborough University)
  • Edward McPherson (Senior Consultant at WPI Economics)
  • Dr Matt Barnes (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at City St George’s, University of London)
  • Professor Ruth Patrick (Professor of Public and Social Policy at University of Glasgow)
10:30am
  • Alun Francis OBE
  • Carl Cullinane (Director of Research and Policy at Sutton Trust)
  • Daniel Lilley (Head of Youth at Centre for Social Justice)
The Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House

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We receive a significant number of emails each day. All requests and invitations are considered but we do not respond directly to everyone. Please be aware, the committee does not look at individual cases or specific complaints.