Policy background Life chances measures
The Child Poverty Act 2010 placed a duty on the Secretary of State to meet a set of UK-wide targets by the end of the financial year 2020/21 (and every year thereafter) relating to four income-based measures of child poverty.
	On 1 July 2015, the Secretary of State announced to Parliament that the Government would bring forward legislation to remove the measures and targets in the Child Poverty Act 2010, as well as the other duties and provisions. This Act introduces a duty to report on measures of worklessness and educational attainment.
	The Life Chances sections in the Act remove most of the legal duties and measures set out in the Child Poverty Act 2010 (cited as the Life Chances Act 2010) and places a new duty on the Secretary of State to report annually on measures of children in workless households in England and the educational attainment of children in England at the end of Key Stage 4. Key Stage 4 is the term for the two years of school education normally known as Year 10 and 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16.