The latest ‘Households below average income’ statistics, published yesterday (25 March), show the number of children in poverty was at a 11-year high before the Coronavirus pandemic hit the UK.
According to the figures, the number of children living in relative poverty after housing costs rose from 4.1 million 2018/19 to 4.3 million in 2019/20 - this amounts to 31 per cent of all children in the UK.
In comparison, 3.6 million children were in poverty 11 years ago (2010/11).
The latest statistics show that just over half of all children in poverty were in families with a youngest child under the age of five and 47 per cent of children in families with three or more children.
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