Speaking at a Policy Exchange conference on child poverty targets today (30 April), Field said the current system is failing.
He said life chances indicators, outlined in his 2010 government review of poverty, would be a better way of measuring the impact of policy through monitoring how well developed children are.
The indicators cover three areas: child-based factors; parent-based factors; and environment-based factors, such as the quality of childcare.
Field said: “The Labour government’s ambition to abolish child poverty was a laudable aim.
“However, it is clear that the policy they employed – of income transfers on a massive scale – did not work. Nor are they sustainable.
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