The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned that if something doesn't change that 37% of children will be in poverty by 2021. That figure is higher than any recorded since figures were first collated in 1961. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/37-per-cent-children-poor-national-humiliation-ifs
Economy: Child Poverty Disappears…
...from the DWP's estimates in regards to Universal Credit. In 2010 a white paper said the government's plans would lift 350,000 children out of poverty, now there is no estimation. http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2017/10/26/dwp-quietly-drops-universal-credit-child-poverty-forecast
Adel and Wharfedale Branch 