core funding for the centre is provided by the government of italy and unicef additional financial support for specific projects is provided by governments international institutions and private sources including by unicef national committees as well as by unicef offices in collaborative studies the european union eu is amongst those bodies that have recognized the need for childfocused indicators in monitoring poverty and social exclusion and is currently in the process of developing testing and comparing single indicators of child wellbeing across member states in this paper we seek to add to this debate by providing a microanalysis of the breadth of child poverty in the european union considering both the degree of overlap and accumulation of deprivations across monetary and multidimensional indicators of poverty