This Report Card: → Presents the most up-to-date comparable picture of child poverty in OECD/EU countries, including an analysis of trends over the last decade → Analyses government income support policies provided to households with children and identifies promising examples that may help inform efforts to reduce child poverty This report begins with a league table that ranks countries based on recent levels of child income poverty and progress in reducing it. It makes use of the best available comparable data, based on six criteria – quality, relevance, coverage, recency, comparability and variability – established in previous Report Cards. Box 1 provides a brief overview of child poverty measurement in general and of the different types of measures used in the report. 6 Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth Innocenti Report Card 18