Nursery World - Number of children in poverty up by 400,000 in last five years

According to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, four million children are currently living in poverty.

Looking back to the last five years, this is an increase of 400,000 children who are living in poverty.

Children have consistently faced the highest poverty rate throughout the last 20 years, the report said.

Although employment has increased, in-work poverty has also gone up, according to the findings, with 56 per cent of people in poverty part of a working family, compared to 39 per cent 20 years ago.

Of all family types, working single parents have been swept fastest into poverty, with three in ten now struggling to stay afloat compared with just two in ten a decade ago, the report added.

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