Commission's final guidelines amend the definition of poverty

By Emilie Filou, Third Sector, 16 January 2008

One of the main changes in the Charity Commission's final public benefit guidance, published today, is the use of the term 'people living in poverty' instead of 'people on low incomes', which had been suggested in the draft guidance last year.

Many of the 900 responses to the consultation had criticised the phrase, arguing that it was unclear who it referred to in the UK or abroad. 'The poor', although old-fashioned, at least had the merit of being universally understood, they argued. The question relates to the second of two main...