Release

Children living in long-term workless households in the UK: 2024

Release date: 29 October 2025 9:30am
Important information:

Further quality assurance.

Summary

Annual UK estimates of the number of children living in households where all adults have not worked for at least 12 months.

Changes to this release date

  1. Previous date

    2 October 2025 9:30am

    Reason for change

    Further quality assurance.

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest