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<p>The most commonly used measure of poverty is relative low income.</p><p> </p><p>The
latest statistics from the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data series show
that there are: 2.7 million children, 5.7 million working-age adults, and 2.1 million
pensioners in relative low income in the United Kingdom on a ‘before housing costs’
(BHC) basis.</p><p>Analysis of the HBAI data shows that there are 2.1 million families
in relative low income BHC where at least one adult member works at least part-time.</p><p>This
Government is committed to tackling the root causes of poverty, thereby preventing
the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage.</p><p> </p><p>This is why we repealed
the income-related targets set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 and replaced them
with statutory measures that drive action on parental worklessness and children’s
educational attainment – the two areas that we know can make the biggest difference
to disadvantaged children, now and in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Department for
Work and Pensions published Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families in April 2017.
Here we set out further non-statutory indicators on a wider set of parental disadvantage
and children’s outcomes, which will drive collective action on areas that matter in
tackling disadvantage.</p><p> </p>
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