The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF) annual report into poverty finds the numbers of children in poverty has risen ‘much faster’ over the last five years than expected based on population growth. Between 2013 and 2018, the total number of children in the UK increased by 3-per-cent, while the number in poverty increased by 15 per cent.
It says the rise is largely down to an increase in children from working families falling into poverty.
In-work poverty is higher than at any time in the last 20 years.
The risk of poverty for children in workless households has also grown since 2013, from 63 per cent to 73 per cent.
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