Child Poverty Bill

The Minister has on several occasions stressed the importance of socio-economic disadvantage when saying that the specific targets that we propose to tackle the causes of poverty are not needed, because the strategy contains a protection so that children do not experience socio-economic disadvantage. "Socio-economic disadvantage" is a nice-sounding expression, but I am genuinely puzzled as to what it could mean in a legislative context. When could a child say that he or she suffered or did not suffer socio-economic disadvantage? The guardian of the term would seem to be the Office for National Statistics and it has changed significantly—