(Photo: Getty/iStock)Churches and other faith organisations are being invited to partner with the government in tackling child poverty. The Department for Work and Pensions’ first baseline report on the government’s 10-year Child Poverty Strategy found that four million children across the UK - 27% of the total - were living in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25. The report, ‘Our Children, Our Future: Tackling Child Poverty - Monitoring and Evaluation Baseline Report,’ sets out how ministers intend to measure progress under the strategy, which was launched in December 2025. The government said reducing child poverty would require cooperation between central and local government, businesses, voluntary organisations, faith communities and people with lived experience of poverty. The report said the voices of children and families experiencing poverty would remain central to that process.