Child Poverty in the UK

Child poverty: Definition could include family breakdown, November 15, 2012, BBC News: “Family breakdown, drug addiction, debt and education results are among the factors that could be used to measure child poverty in future, ministers say. Recent figures showed fewer children in poverty – but largely because falling wages have narrowed the gap between the poorest and average earners. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says this income-based method of measuring poverty is too simple. He is launching a consultation on how to include other factors. But Labour suggested that the government was trying to ‘distract attention’ from ‘rather bleak’ trends in child poverty data…”