Child Poverty Map of the UK

This report provides a localised map of child poverty on the closest possible measure to that used nationally by the government. The figures presented are for mid 2011. They show the scale of the challenge to achieve this goal, especially in some local areas. In 100 wards throughout the UK, the majority of children remain in poverty.

By publishing these local figures, there is hope to increase awareness at local level of the child poverty that exists in each and every community in the UK. The figures will be helpful to local poverty makers as they pursue their local child poverty needs assessments and strategies. But the publisher also hopes that local campaigners, community groups and media will make use of the figures too.

Poverty in the UK can be ended. British children face much higher rates of poverty than many other similarly wealthy EU countries and there is no reason why British children should suffer more than their European neighbours. This report serves as a warning of the situation we are in, and the pressures we face, as Britain’s poorest children look to the current government to live up to their goal of making British poverty history and ending child poverty.