As a Government, we are committed to taking substantial action to reduce child poverty and hardship in New Zealand beyond the 66,500 children already lifted out of poverty. While our targets are ambitious, the latest figures for 2020-21 are encouraging. They show rates on all nine income and material hardship measures in the Child Poverty Reduction Act are trending downwards, and we have achieved two out of three of our first three-year targets and made significant reductions against the third target. Through Budget 2022, we are continuing to support families through direct and indirect investments in child poverty and wellbeing. 