The UK government has published an updated baseline monitoring and evaluation report for its UK-wide child poverty strategy, setting out how progress under the programme will be tracked and reported.
The document is the first annual monitoring and evaluation report for Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty, the Child Poverty Strategy 2025. It appears on GOV.UK under data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports.
According to the government summary, the documents provide an update on the strategy and outline the approach to evaluation. This includes planned analysis, research, oversight arrangements and early delivery progress.
The report also presents the updated position for the 2024/25 baseline year. That baseline is intended to provide the starting point from which future progress can be assessed as the strategy develops.
The government said the documents set out how progress will be tracked and reported. The source material does not include new headline poverty figures, policy commitments or spending totals, and instead focuses on the monitoring and evaluation framework for the strategy.
The updated version of the baseline report was revised to improve accuracy and clarity. Changes included amended wording in the Introduction and in the Summary and Next Steps sections.
The revisions also updated references to stakeholder engagement and the process for submitting evidence. The report’s appendix was amended to include Middlesbrough Council in Table 2, which lists regional and local authorities.
A further correction changed a reference in the same appendix from “Greater London Alliance” to “Greater London Authority”. The table relates to regional, local and voluntary, community and social enterprise stakeholders engaged in discovery work on place-based action on child poverty.
The publication indicates that the government is seeking to establish a structured basis for measuring delivery under the child poverty strategy. Monitoring and evaluation reports of this type are used to define what will be assessed, how evidence will be gathered and how progress will be reviewed over time.
The source page also includes a notice that the file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. GOV.UK additionally carries standard cookie and privacy prompts alongside the publication page.
The government has not, in the source material provided, announced separate policy changes alongside the updated report. The main development is the publication and correction of the baseline monitoring and evaluation documents for the 2025 UK-wide strategy.
