Written statement on Workless Households and Educational Attainment

Kit Malthouse (Department for Work and Pensions): Later today I will publish “Workless households and educational attainment statutory indicators”, an annual report pursuant to Section A1A of the Life Chances Act 2010 as amended. “Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families”, published on 4^th April 2017, set out this Government’s vision to improve outcomes for children who grow up in workless families and face multiple, associated disadvantages. To track our collective progress in improving outcomes for disadvantaged families, my department made a commitment to publishing the latest data on seven additional non-statutory national indicators each year.

The annual report “Workless households and educational attainment statutory indicators” will be available here later today:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/workless-households-and-educational-attainment-statutory-indicators-2018

The Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families indicators will be available here later today:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-lives-helping-workless-families-evidence-base