Map shows East London 'worst area for child poverty'
Catherine Gaunt
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tower Hamlets in East London has the highest rate of child poverty in the UK with more than half (52 per cent) of all children below the poverty line, the End Child Poverty Campaign claims.
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