A brief thread to summarise:
- 72% of poor children live in working families in 2018-19, up from 70% in 2017-18, and 15% of poor children have a self-employed parent, that’s a record high.
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- Number of children in poverty rises 100,000 to 4.2 million after housing costs (AHC), up from 3.6 million in 2010. That’s 30% of UK children below the poverty line.
- 600,000 more children in relative poverty (after housing costs) since 2010.
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- 100,000 more children in absolute poverty (after housing costs) since 2010 while the economy has grown by 16%.
- 51% of poor children are aged under 5 - that’s more than 2 million children.
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- Proportion of poor children in couple-families rises to 68% (up from 65% in 2017-18); 32% of poor children are in a single parent family (down from 35%).
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Govt’s Coronavirus measures show radical action is possible yet no such urgent response to rising #childpoverty. New research by @ProfJBradshaw & Dr Antonia Keung found ⬆️ child benefit by £10/child/week would⬇️#childpoverty by 5 percentage points: cpag.org.uk/news-blogs/new… (5/5)
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