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I get it all out [of the bank] when it comes in and then I have to make it last for the whole week. This week I had £7.50 to last for the whole weekend.

Woman with children

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

Poverty In Your Area

Hammersmith & Fulham

Whilst being a prosperous borough by national standards Hammersmith & Fulham holds pockets of extreme deprivation causing social polarisation¹. It has the 16th highest level of child poverty in London (out of the 32 boroughs in the capital).
Problems of disadvantage in health, housing, crime and living environment are all drivers of deprivation in Hammersmith & Fulham².

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
50%	14%	36%	59	7 (out of 111)

Number of Children and Expected Children in Temporary Accommodation ⁹

1949

Representatives:

	Name	Constituency	Political Party
London Assembly Member	Kit Malthouse	West Central	Conservative
Council Leader	Stephen Greenhalgh	Hammersmith & Fulham	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Greg Hands	Hammersmith & Fulham	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Andrew Slaughter	Ealing, Acton & Shepherd's Bush	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).