The Government has launched a consultation over the best way to measure child poverty to reflect the reality in the UK today.

The current measures focus on a family’s income and now the Government wants to look at how a wider measurement can be developed, to tackle the root causes of poverty including worklessness, educational failure and family stability.

The consultation document states that family stability is important to a child’s experience of growing up and to their life chances. A multidimensional measure of child poverty that is able to reflect this will give a more realistic indication of what it means to grow up in child poverty.

According to the consultation:

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