, Cabinet Secretary for Social
Justice, Trefnydd and Chief Whip: Earlier this year I
committed to publish the Child Poverty Strategy
Monitoring Framework this autumn. I am pleased to share the
Framework with you today and I will be highlighting its
publication during my speech to the Child Poverty Conference
later this morning.
The Child Poverty Strategy Monitoring Framework is one of three
mechanisms through which progress on delivery of the Child
Poverty Strategy will be measured and reported once every three
years.
- A Monitoring Framework to report on national
level data to assess
the impact of efforts across government to address child
poverty, largely focussed on outcomes for children and young
people.
- A policy progress report which will
report on evidence of progress across government on
delivering against the objectives, priorities and commitments
of the Child Poverty Strategy.
- A report of evidence from children,
young people and families with lived experience of poverty.
This is intended to provide evidence of whether our work on
implementing the strategy across government and with external
partners is having any positive impact on the people it is
intended to serve.
The framework will be used to report on regular and robust
population level data on a range of child poverty indicators to
provide insight on impact and direction of travel on the outcomes
for children and young people. I believe a framework based
on a range of measures will support us to more accurately reflect the
impact of our approach to this complex set of problems.
The Monitoring Framework has been developed by
Knowledge and Analytical Services (KAS) with Professor Rod Hick,
Cardiff University, providing independent advice and expert
review to inform the final framework. I also wish to
thank our Child Poverty Strategy External Reference Group
for sharing their reflections and comments during the development
of the framework.
The Framework sets out the domains, National Well-being
Indicators, and associated measures against which we will report
statistical evidence on our progress.
The framework is wide-ranging, focusing primarily on social
outcomes relating to child poverty, deprivation and wellbeing.
Professor Rod Hick provided important challenge and expertise as
we developed this Monitoring Framework, meeting regularly with
the team and commenting on draft versions as they were developed.
Professor Hick has provided a formal report including his final
recommendations and feedback and this is published alongside the
Framework for transparency.
The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act (2015) National
Milestones are an important part of measuring progress in our
work. In addition to the Monitoring Framework, we will
continue to report annually on our progress in achieving the
commitments set out in our Programme for Government and we will
publish our Wellbeing
of Wales report every year. The Wellbeing of Wales
report includes an assessment of our progress towards our
National Milestones.
The Child Poverty Strategy Monitoring Framework will be updated
every 3 years and used to assess the impact of efforts across
government to address child poverty, reflecting the impact of our
broad approach to supporting children and mitigating the effects
which child poverty has on their lives.
Next Steps
Work to populate the framework with the latest data available in
2025 will be undertaken as part of the statutory reporting on
progress against the Child Poverty Strategy.
