Holyrood wants to leave UK child poverty commission headed by former Labour cabinet minister Alan MilburnThe Scottish government is to withdraw from one of the UK government’s leading welfare initiatives in protest at Iain Duncan Smith’s decision to abandon key targets for measuring child poverty, the Observer has learned.
Scottish ministers acquire told the work and pensions secretary they diagram to leave the social mobility and child poverty commission headed by former Labour cabinet minister Alan Milburn and want Scotland to be excluded from the legislation on child poverty passed by Westminster in 2010.
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Source: theguardian.com