This report covers the progress made during the first ten months of the New Zealand government's Child Youth and Wellbeing Strategy's implementation, from September 2019 to June 2020.

This report focuses on New Zealand's child poverty trends and indicators up to and including the 2019/20 year.

Working for Families (WFF) is the primary income support mechanism for children in New Zealand. In this paper, the authors make recommendations for the anticipated WFF government reform.

This research finds that inadequate social security payments play a significant role in shaping poverty and financial stress trends in Australia. It also finds that it is possible to address these challenges by increasing the overall social security budget.

The Morrison Government’s decision to reduce the rate of JobSeeker by $150 from January 2021 will push an additional 190,000 Australians below the poverty line—including 50,000 children—and have a devastating impact on low income families, argues this paper.