Access to a quality education has been put forward by government as a possible measure of whether a child is living in poverty.
Currently, judging if a child lives in poverty or not is based on relative household income and whether it is more or less than 60 per cent of the UK median.
However, a consultation has now been launched in a bid to create a “new multi-dimensional measure” taking in a range of indicators ranging from family breakdown to education.
Making the announcement, work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith called on charities and other organisations with expertise to respond in order to inform the debate.
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