The bill was launched last week, led by the Treasury, in a bid to enshrine the government's pledge to eradicate child poverty by 2020 in law.
But concerns have been raised over a lack of clarity in terms of how the government would be held to account.
A spokesman for the Child Poverty Action Group said that it would like to see this area probed more as the bill runs its course through parliament. Anne Longfield, chief executive of charity 4Children, said: "What we don't want is a spotlight to be put on local authorities when there is no accountability at a national level."
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