A ministerial taskforce has been launched to kick off work on the Child Poverty Strategy.
The work & pensions secretary and the education secretary have been appointed as the joint leads of the taskforce.
There will also be a new Child Poverty Unit in the Cabinet Office, which will report into the taskforce. Bringing together expert officials from across government as well as external experts, it will explore how all the available levers across government can be utilised to create an ambitious strategy.

King Charles has set out the new government's plans in a speech to Parliament.
39 bills were outlined in the speech which the government plans to pass in the next parliamentary session.
Awaab’s Law will be extended to enforce building safety tules for private renters as well as social tenants. A Renters’ Rights Bill will ban so-called no fault evictions.
A Planning and Infrastructure Bill is included intended to streamline the process for approving critical infrastructure, and overhaul rules on the compulsory purchase of land.

The Senedd has passed a new bill intended to reform the local tax system in Wales.
The Welsh Government hopes that the bill will make taxes fairer and work better for the future needs of Wales.
For non-domestic (business) rates, the bill will increase how often the values of all non-domestic properties in Wales are updated, to once every three years; provide more flexibility to make changes to reliefs and exemptions; and enable changes to the calculation of payments for different categories of ratepayers.

Welsh first minister Vaughan Gething has resigned from his position after four months.
The resignation comes after three Welsh government ministers and a legal advisor resigned earlier with statements calling on the first minister to resign as well. Cabinet members Mick Antoniw, Lesley Griffiths, Julie James and Jeremy Miles all handed in their resignations.
The announcement comes after a series of controversies. Gething has been criticised for accepted a £200,000 campaign donation from a businessman convicted of environmental offences.

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner is set to pledge to kickstart a devolution revolution with the aim of transferring more powers out of Westminster into the hands of local people.
In a letter to local leaders, she will urge regions without devolved power to “partner with the government to deliver the most ambitious programme of devolution this country has ever seen”.
The letter will invite local leaders in devolution deserts to work together to take on powers in areas like transport, adult education and skills, housing and planning, and employment support.

North Herts Council is seeking out local businesses to take part in a pilot solar panel project.
The project is part of a commitment to be a net zero district by 2040 and is partly funded by the government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
It would see solar panels be installed on business premises for free, with planned results of cheaper, cleaner electricity, saving businesses money and reducing carbon emissions.