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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-poverty-act-2010-persistent-poverty-target-regulations-2014/note",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111121870",
  "legislation_title": "The Child Poverty Act 2010 (Persistent Poverty Target) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-child-poverty-act-2010-persistent-poverty-target-regulations-2014",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nSection 2 of the Child Poverty Act 2010 (“the Act”) places a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that the targets in sections 3 to 6 of the Act are met by the target year which is defined as the financial year beginning on 1 April 2020.\nSection 6 of the Act relates to the persistent poverty target. This target is that less than a percentage target of children who have lived in qualifying households whose equivalised net income has been less than 60% of UK median equivalised net household income in at least three out of four consecutive survey years. Equivalised is defined in section 7 as meaning adjusted to take account of variations in household size and composition.\nThere is no definition of qualifying household in the Act. Section 7(1)(a) provides a power to set out in regulations the definition of a qualifying household for the purposes of the child poverty targets.\nUnder section 6(3) any target percentage must be prescribed by regulations made before 2015.\nRegulation 2 of these Regulations sets the target percentage at 7%.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111121870/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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