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<p>The Government’s response to the consultation on new measures of child poverty
can be found in Annex E of the attached document. The analysis of the results in 2013
recorded that two respondents to the consultation said income should not be included
in a measure of child poverty.</p><br /><p>We cannot give the names of the respondents
due to Data Protection Act requirements. However, one was from an academic organisation
and the other was from a frontline service.</p><br /><p>The Government wants to focus
future effort on tackling the root causes of child poverty. That is why the life chances
provisions in the Welfare Reform and Work Bill will introduce new measures of worklessness
and educational attainment, and why we have committed ourselves to introducing a set
of non-statutory indicators including ones on family breakdown, problem debt and addiction.
These measures will focus action on the areas which the evidence indicates will make
a sustainable difference to children’s lives - now and in the future.</p>
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