Recent Changes to Measuring Child Poverty

Citation

Treanor MC (2015) Recent Changes to Measuring Child Poverty. Challenge Poverty Week 2015, 17.10.2015. https://challengepoverty.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/recent-changes-to-measuring-child-poverty/

Abstract
First paragraph: The Conservative government is planning to change the current measure of child poverty, which combines income (60% median equivalised) and material deprivation (21 items commonly agreed as essential by members of the general public for adults and children separately, which are then combined to create anindex of multiple deprivation).