Nursery World - Close to half of children living in poverty, warn campaigners

A new poverty map reveals the number of children living in poverty by area across the UK.

Published today by the End Child Poverty coalition, the map shows that where child poverty is at its highest.

In Ladywood, Birmingham, 47 per cent of children are living in poverty after housing costs. This is closely followed by 45 per cent in central Manchester and 44 per cent in the London constituencies of Poplar and Limehouse.

The figures, which are broken down by parliamentary constituency, local authority and ward, also show that more children are living in poverty in large cities including London, Manchester and Birmingham.

Children are classed as being in poverty if they live in families in receipt of out-of-work tax credits where their reported family income is less than 60 per cent of the median income.

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