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<p>Employment is key to helping people out of poverty and to make a real and lasting
change to the lives of disadvantaged families and children. Our welfare and tax reforms
are designed to incentivise employment and to support people to progress in work.
Employment is now at near-record levels and the number of children living in a family
where no one is working is 608,000 lower than it was in 2010. Improving Lives: Helping
Workless Families, published on 4 April, set out a framework for a continued focus
on improving children’s outcomes, now and in the future.</p><p> </p><p>The Department
does not forecast estimates of low income, but the next HBAI publication for 2016/17
data has been <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/households-below-average-income-199495-to-201617"
target="_blank">pre-announced</a> and will be published by the end of March 2018.
The government is committed to continue to publish this series on an annual basis.</p>
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