New analysis of the official Households Below Average Income data shows a worrying number of areas where more than half of children grow up in poverty – in some wards the figure is approaching 70 per cent.
Published by the End Child Poverty coalition, the data also warns that child poverty is rising fastest in areas where it is already high, further entrenching existing poverty gaps.
Researchers from Loughborough University analysed the 2019 Households Below Average Income data, which was published in March and relates to the year 2017/18.
Their subsequent report shows that across both relative and absolute poverty measures – and whether measured before or after housing costs – the number of children living in poverty has risen since 2010.
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