The charity examined data from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Family Resources Survey (FRS), which shows that 983,279 children aged 10 and under across the UK are living in materially deprived, low-income families. This is 11 per cent of the total under-10 population. The average UK primary school class size is 28 children.
It also looked at findings from the Office of National Statistics’ 2017 Living Costs and Food Survey and found that parents ‘below the breadline’ are able to spend on average of just £2 a day per child on food and struggle to afford anything nutritious.
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