What jumps out at me is that the IFS says this data will help them analyse "Whether the surprise rise in child poverty evident in the previous year of data was a one-off or the start of a new trend."  As the child poverty reductions were probably the crowning effort in the 2008 budget, it would be an incredibly bitter pill to swallow if we are to discover that child poverty is now on the rise again.

I'm by no means a finance expert, so could someone clue me in- is this always the day this report is published?  Or is this more potential bad news burying?  I'm normally not one for conspiracy theories like this, but the 10p tax stories have not been fun reading and, frankly, I'm no longer sure I'm willing to trust this leadership to be completely frank about the impact of our economic policy on all low paid workers.

Link to the IFS statement is here.