It contained a number of good ideas and some bad ones. Unfortunately, the Government looks set to pick up on both.
Tackling child poverty means tackling the myths peddled about it. Britain's child poverty targets are not a political invention. The most widely quoted UK child poverty target, that of the number of children living in families below 60 per cent of the median income, is a well established international measure, used by UNICEF and most OECD countries.
Nor is a relative child poverty target a measure of inequality, rather than poverty, as some argue. The target measures the distance from the median, not the mean or the top, and poverty is not just about lacking the basics, but about exclusion from the everyday activities most people take for granted. This can only be judged by reference to the standards experienced by the wider society. Poverty must be measured on a relative basis.
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