House Of Lords Votes To Keep Income-Related Child Poverty Measures

‘The House of Lords has voted to keep targets aimed at reducing child poverty, forcing the government to reconsider its plan to abolish them.

The Bishop of Durham, supported by Labour and the Liberal Democrats, led the effort to retain the targets, which measure material poverty, and were set to be scrapped under the welfare reform and work bill.

Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced the move in July, prompting dismay among child poverty charities.’

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