A new report published by the End Child Poverty coalition today estimates that 22.9% of children are living in poverty in Gedling.
The figure is the highest in the Killisick ward (37.61%), which covers areas in parts of Arnold, with Trent Valley (32.68%) and Daybrook (32.50%) not far behind.
The new figures reveal that there are now constituencies within the UK where more than half of children are growing up in poverty – compared to one in ten, in the areas with the lowest child poverty rates.
The figures also show that some of the most deprived areas of the UK have seen the biggest increases in child poverty since the coalition’s local child poverty figures for December 2015. Increases of 10 percentage points in some areas demonstrate the growing crisis of child poverty in the UK.
Vernon Coaker the Member of Parliament for Gedling said : “Child poverty is one of the toughest challenges this Government faces. We also know that the biggest threat to a child’s health and educational attainment is poverty.
“It is simply not good enough for the Government to keep saying that the economy is improving when clearly the facts speak for themselves, they should take action and use all available levers to tackle this problem. No child should be living in poverty.”
This tables hows the figures in full:
You can see the data, methodology and interactive map at http://www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/poverty-in-your-area-2018/
This government should be totally ashamed of itself , this terrible suffering is caused directly by government policy ,it could end tomorrow ,if the political will was there .Instead they are introducing policies which their own advisors tell them will increase child poverty .I,E, rolling out universal credit ,despite its many known failings .
Strange they can always find money from that money tree ,to bribe the DUP ,to give tax handouts to the already wealthy ,to lower corporation tax ,( more money to the bosses } etc
Where are the morals ,the shame of this conservative government and their supporters