The indicators are contained in a Department of Work and Pensions document that sets out how the Government will measure progress on eradicating child poverty after 2004.
The Government had pledged to reduce child poverty by a quarter by 2004, and eradicate it by 2020. But the department's report states that is now aiming for a poverty rate that is "among the best in Europe".
The report also sets out a new, tiered system for measuring child poverty, to be introduced after 2004. These will include absolute low income, material deprivation, which will measure access to things such as holidays and leisure equipment, and the present indicator of relative low income, defined as children in households with less than 60 per cent of average income.
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