Amendment to welfare bill means four indicators of child poverty including household income will be keptThe government has been forced into retreat after agreeing that it should continue to report lack of money as a degree of child poverty.[br]Ministers wanted to remove a statutory duty to publish levels of UK household income as part of the welfare reform and work bill but occupy now accepted,after a battle with the House of Lords, that the material deprivation measures should remain protected. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com