Ar 1 Gorffennaf 2015, cyhoeddodd Llywodraeth y DU Ddatganiad Llafar ar dlodi plant.  Ynddo, datganwyd bwriad Llywodraeth y DU i ollwng ei tharged i ddileu tlodi plant erbyn 2020, sef sail Deddf Tlodi Plant 2010 a chyflwyno deddfwriaeth i newid y ffordd y mae’n mesur tlodi plant ar hyn o bryd.  Bydd hynny’n golygu rhoi’r gorau i fesur tlodi plant trwy fesur incwm cymharol.  Mae’r dull hwnnw’n diffinio tlodi plant fel canran y plant sy’n byw ar aelwydydd sy’n ennill 60% yn llai na’r incwm canolrif.  Yn hytrach, maent yn bwriadu cyflwyno dyletswydd statudol newydd i adrodd ar fesurau sy’n ymdrin â diweithdra a chyrhaeddiad addysgol.  Law yn llaw â’r mesurau newydd hyn, byddant yn datblygu hefyd ystod o ddangosyddion eraill  i fesur hynt ymdrechion yn erbyn achosion gwaelodol tlodi. Bydd y dangosyddion hynny’n cynnwys teuluoedd sy’n chwalu, dyled broblematig a dibyniaeth ar gyffuriau ac alcohol.
On 1 July 2015, the UK Government issued an Oral Statement on child poverty. The Statement outlined their intention to step away from the UK Government target to eradicate child poverty by 2020, which underpins the Child Poverty Act 2010, and introduce legislation to change the way child poverty is currently measured.  This will mean a move away from measuring child poverty using a relative income measure, which is defined as the percentage of children living in households below 60% of the median income.  Instead, the UK Government plans to introduce a new statutory duty to report on measures which are focussed on worklessness and educational attainment. Alongside these new statutory measures, they will also be developing a range of other indicators to measure the progress against the root causes of poverty. This will include measures on family breakdown, problem debt and drug and alcohol dependency.