Bringing Hope, Building Futures: Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2026-2031 – annex 3: Evaluation strategy (2026 update)

2. What is the evaluation strategy?

The evaluation strategy has served as a long-term anchor to assess progress towards eradicating child poverty. Since the very first Plan, it has provided a framework of assessment and understanding that can influence policy decisions.

A summary of our evaluation strategy can be seen in Figure 1 below.

This evaluation approach allows us to understand how policy actions are being implemented and delivered (process), whether and how we are on the necessary path to reach the child poverty targets (impact), and whether we are using resources efficiently (economic).

The approach covers two levels: an overarching overview of the Strategy as a whole, and also individual policies assessments. All of this wrapped by a system level understanding to reduce child poverty.