Claim: We're seeing fewer families in absolute poverty in the UK.
Fact-check: Poverty: up or down?  - Full Fact
Verdict: it depends how you look at it and what time period you pick. if you take the claim to be referring to the period since 2010, that could still be correct or incorrect. the number of individuals in households that are in absolute poverty appears to have fallen, but the number of children has remained broadly the same.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2016-11-30T00:00:00