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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How should benefit eligibility differ for different migrant groups by immigration status; time spent in the UK and contributions to the economy e.g. National Insurance Contributions (NICs) paid? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How can DWP and its partners maximise sustainable compliance with child maintenance arrangements within and outside the statutory scheme? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How effective are child maintenance and associated policies at supporting separated families to have a child maintenance arrangement that is appropriate for them, reducing conflict and helping children and adults achieve better outcomes? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How effective are policies designed to reduce homelessness and the use of temporary accommodation? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What is the effectiveness (including value for money) of DWP’s expenditure on housing support, including its impacts on wider policies such as health, education, the labour market and energy efficient homes? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How can the benefit system best help low income and vulnerable households with their housing costs? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How do housing circumstances—including cost, quality, security, energy efficiency, overcrowding and tenure—affect child poverty and its outcomes? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What factors are driving the continued need for emergency food parcels and what interventions could help to reduce this need? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all How do the needs of families with children under 18 vary over the child's life course, following specific life events, or changes of circumstances? How does this relate to the risk of poverty and associated support needs? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What is the (micro and macro) economic impact of local-level preventative interventions that build individual financial resilience? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What works at a local and/or regional level to support families in crisis, reduce child poverty and build resilience in communities? How can government work most effectively with others to support delivery of this? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What is the interaction between social security, employment, and child poverty? Within this, how can social security most effectively reduce child poverty? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all To what extent can increasing parental employment and/or supporting parents to progress in work reduce child poverty and how might this vary across different family configurations? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What policies should be used to tackle the drivers of current and future trends for child poverty? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What can DWP do to promote well-functioning family systems to optimise cross-government outcomes for parents and their children? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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Tackle child poverty and hardship, ensuring financial security for all What are the short, medium and long-term costs and impacts of child poverty for children and families in poverty, and for society as a whole? For example, impacts on education, health and future employment outcomes. How does this vary by time spent in poverty? Department for Work and Pensions, 2026

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