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More than 4.3 million children in the UK currently live in poverty, equivalent to 30% of all children. Child poverty is an important issue and living in poverty can have long-term impacts on a child’s mental and physical health, wellbeing and educational achievement. Given this, the government has put tackling child poverty high on its policy agenda, enlisting a taskforce to come up with an ambitious strategy.
Conceptually we can think about someone as being in poverty if they have insufficient resources to cover their basic needs. But how do we measure this in practice?
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