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My life is going to school then coming home and cleaning, but I would need a well paid job to make it worth my while because I'd need some childcare. I get really miserable just keeping the house.

Woman with children

Invisible Islington: A report by the Cripplegate Foundation (2008)

Poverty In Your Area

Kensington & Chelsea

Whilst being perceived as a very prosperous borough, Kensington & Chelsea contains pockets of extreme deprivation causing social polarisation¹. It is the 19th most deprived borough in London and has the 21st highest level of child poverty (out of the 32 boroughs in the capital).
Disadvantage in the local living environment is a particularly significant driver of deprivation in the borough, notably the high population density combined with Kensington & Chelsea having the second worst air quality in London ².

Children in Low Income Families ³	Breakdown of Children in Low Income Families ⁴		Rank of Local Authority ⁵ (Out of 354 - where 1 is the most deprived borough in England ).	Number of Deprived Wards in the Borough ⁶
	In Work ⁷	Out of Work ⁸
42%	12%	29%	101	9 (out of 103)

Number of Children and Expected Children in Temporary Accommodation ⁹

1154

Representatives:

	Name	Constituency	Political Party
London Assembly Member	Kit Malthouse	West Central	Conservative
Council Leader	Merrick Cocknell	Kensington & Chelsea	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Sir Malcolm Rifkind	Kensington & Chelsea	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Karen Buck	Regent's Park & Kensington North	Labour

For more information about the borough please visit:

www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk which provides up-to-date child poverty data, advice on child poverty proofing practices and good practice examples from Local Authorities around England .
http://www.go-london.gov.uk/boroughinfo/ which provides direct links to key information and statistics about your borough supplied by government departments and the Office for National Statistics. These include census information, performance indicators and school performance statistics.

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Government Office for London , http://www.go-london.gov.uk/boroughinfo/ .
The State of the Borough, An Economic Social and Environmental Profile, 2007, The local futures group, http://www.capitalambition.gov.uk/
Source: HM Revenue and Customs (latest data – 2006). Provided by the Child Poverty Toolkit ( www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk ).
Source: HM Revenue and Customs (latest data – 2006). Provided by the Child Poverty Toolkit ( www.childpovertytoolkit.org.uk ).
Provided by Government Office for London ( http://www.go-london.gov.uk/boroughinfo/ ). Rank of Local Authority out of 354 local authorities in England (where 1 is the most deprived).
Provided by Government Office for London ( http://www.go-london.gov.uk/boroughinfo/ ). Number of Wards that fall in the top 10% most deprived wards in England .
In Work: Receiving Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit
Out of Work: Receiving Workless Benefits – Job Seekers Allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Income Support or Carer's Allowance.
Figures provided by Shelter (2008).