The annual Households Below Average Income statistics for 2016-17 reveal child poverty increased by 100,000 in a year to 4.1 million, the equivalent of 30 per cent of all children.
They show the majority of children living in relative poverty after housing costs are in families where the youngest child is under five.
More than 65 per cent of children in poverty are in working families.
Children in large families (three or more children), families with a disabled child, lone parent families and self-employed parents have seen the largest increases in poverty.
Children’s charities have expressed their concern at the increase in the number of children living in relative poverty.
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