Whitehall departments and councils could be asked to create a set of Life Chances Indicators to measure children's development, under radical proposals to overhaul the way Britain tackles poverty.
The idea of national and local co-ordinated measurements of an individual child's life chances at the ages of three and five – assessing cognitive, physical and emotional development – forms a key tenet of Labour MP Frank Field's coalition-commissioned poverty review, published on 2 December.
