Ian Duncan Smith has announced that the child poverty measures and targets contained in the 2010 Child Poverty Act are to be scrapped
Instead new legislation will be introduced, aimed at tracking the life chances of Britain’s most disadvantaged children, which will use:
- the proportion of children living in workless household as well as long-term workless households
- the educational attainment of all pupils and the most disadvantaged pupils at age 16
The government will also develop a range of other measures and indicators of root causes of poverty, including family breakdown, debt and addiction, setting these out in a children’s life chances strategy.