";s:4:"text";s:2286:" Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2019 Pascale Bourquin Jonathan Cribb Tom Waters Xiaowei Xu Copy-edited by Judith Payne . This note sets out information on the levels and rates of poverty in the UK, including historical trends and forecasts for future years. Poverty in the UK: statistics Published Thursday, September 05, 2019 April 13, 2020 Brigid Francis-Devine, Feargal McGuinness, Lorna Booth. Source: End Child Poverty, Loughborough University, 2019. Today’s child poverty figures show that child poverty in the UK is increasing across the board, and that the youngest children continue to be most at risk.. Our analysis shows that since 2010, over 400,000 more children in households with children under 5 are in poverty, an increase of over a quarter over this period. We look at creating an anti-poverty childcare system, special educational needs, and poverty and children's relationships. Unless child poverty is specifically monitored, policy makers may have the misconception that progress is being made to reduce poverty, when in reality a large proportion of the population could be stagnating or worse off. Report – Download the full report on local child poverty figures here. End Child Poverty has published new figures (May 2019) on the level of child poverty in each constituency, local authority and ward in Britain. It also damages our society as a whole. National press release: you can read the national press release about the figures here. Four million. It also wants a "credible" child poverty reduction strategy from the UK government, including …
The facts and figures show the reality of child poverty in the UK. There were 4.1 million children living in poverty in the UK in 2017-18.