Legally Binding Child Poverty Targets to Be Scrapped

The Government is to repeal its legally binding child poverty targets, Iain Duncan Smith has announced. The Work and Pensions Secretary said the law was driving government policy to reduce child poverty on an “unsustainable” path. “How we measure things matters because it influences what governments focus on and what we target,” he said. The announcement comes as Mr Duncan Smith prepares to make £12bn welfare cuts that the Government’s own child poverty advisors have said are highly likely to raise child poverty. “The best interests of children were not central to the development of these policies and children's views were not sought,” the UK Children’s Commissioners’ report, handed to the United Nations said. Read more on the Independent website.