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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

Redbridge

Redbridge has a relatively low level of deprivation; it is the 22nd most deprived borough and has only the 20th highest level of child poverty (out of the 32 boroughs in the capital). However levels of inequality are high in the borough, demonstrating that pockets of concentrated deprivation exist.
In particular, problems of disadvantage in crime and the living environment are significantly higher than the national average ¹.

Children in Low Income Families²	Breakdown of Children in Low Income Families³		Rank of Local Authority⁴(Out of 354 - where 1 is the most deprived borough in England ).	Number of Deprived Wards in the Borough ⁵
	In Work⁶	Out of Work⁷
44%	18%	26%	143	1(out of 159).

Representatives:

	Name	Constituency	Political Party
London Assembly Member	Roger Evans	Havering & Redbridge	Conservative
Council Leader	Alan Weinberg	Redbridge	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Iain Duncan Smith	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Lee Scott	Ilford North	Conservative
Member of Parliament	Mike Gapes	Ilford South	Labour
Member of Parliament	Harry Cohen	Leyton & Wanstead	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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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.