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Where child poverty is highest
The figures reveal the wide disparity in poverty rates across the UK, between regions and striking variations even within regions. London scores badly – containing ten of the top 20 constituencies with the highest child poverty rates in the UK and 14 of the 20 highest-rate local authorities. However there is variation within regions. For example, in London, Bethnal Green and Bow has a child poverty rate of 49% compared to 15% in Richmond-upon-Thames.
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Constituency
% of children in poverty 2013
(after housing costs)
1. Bethnal Green and Bow
49%
2. Poplar and Limehouse
49%
3. Birmingham, Ladywood
47%
4. Manchester Central
44%
5. Birmingham, Hodge Hill
43%
6. Edmonton
43%
7. Westminster North
43%
8. Tottenham
42%
9. Hackney South and Shoreditch
42%
10. Manchester, Gorton
42%
11. East Ham
42%
12. Birmingham, Hall Green
42%
13. Glasgow Central
41%
14. Hackney North and Stoke Newington
41%
15. West Ham
41%
16. Blackley and Broughton
40%
17. Bradford West
39%
18. Brent Central
39%
19. Leeds Central
39%
20. Bradford East
39%
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Constituency
% of children in poverty 2013 (after housing costs)
1. Tower Hamlets
49%
2. Hackney
41%
3. Newham
41%
4. Manchester
39%
5. Westminster
39%
6. Islington
38%
7. Enfield
37%
8. Birmingham
37%
9. Leicester
37%
10. Barking and Dagenham
37%
11. Haringey
36%
12. Camden
36%
13. Nottingham
36%
14. Brent
35%
15. Waltham Forest
35%
16. Middlesbrough
35%
17. Lambeth
34%
18. Lewisham
34%
19. Southwark
34%
20. Oldham
34%
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Where child poverty is lowest
In 87 constituencies, the estimated child poverty level on the government’s before housing cost measure is below 10 per cent, the target set for 2020 in the Child Poverty Act. However, in many of these better-off areas, housing costs are high. On an after housing cost measure only two constituencies have rates below 10 per cent: Sheffield Hallam (the seat of the Deputy Prime Minister) and West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine.
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Constituency
% of children in poverty 2013 (after housing costs)
1. West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
9%
2. Sheffield, Hallam
9%
3. North East Hampshire
10%
4. East Dunbartonshire
11%
5. Wokingham
11%
6. Edmonton
11%
7. Haltemprice and Howden
11%
8. Buckingham
12%
9. Gordon
12%
10. Orkney and Shetland
12%
11. South Northamptonshire
12%
12. Mole Valley
12%
13. York Outer
12%
14. Wyre and Preston North
12%
15. Sutton Coldfield
12%
16. Rushcliffe
13%
17. North Somerset
13%
18. South Cambridgeshire
13%
19. Winchester
13%
20. Hitchin and Harpenden
13%
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Constituency
% of children in poverty 2013 (after housing costs)
1. Shetland Islands
10%
2. Wokingham
10%
3. Hart
11%
4. Isles of Scilly
12%
5. South Northamptonshire
12%
6. South Oxfordshire
12%
7. Harborough
13%
8. Rushcliffe
13%
9. Mole Valley
13%
10. Ribble Valley
13%
11. South Cambridgeshire
13%
12. Mid Sussex
13%
13. East Dunbartonshire
13%
14. Waverley
13%
15. West Oxfordshire
13%
16. Vale of White Horse
13%
17. Elmbridge
13%
18. South Bucks
13%
19. Fareham
14%
20. Aberdeenshire
14%
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“These figures reveal just how widely and deeply child poverty reaches into our communities, even those areas generally regarded as well off. Far too many children whose parents are struggling to make a living are suffering as a result and missing out on the essentials of a decent childhood that all young people should be entitled to. We can and must do better for our children.
“Poverty ruins childhoods and reduces life chances. Failing to invest properly in children is a false economy: already child poverty costs the country £29bn each year and in the long run taxpayers will foot an even higher bill for correcting the damage.
“We are calling on politicians of all parties to urgently set out a clear roadmap towards ending child poverty which includes the additional actions needed and the measures by which progress will be tracked.”
Poverty in your area 2014
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End Child Poverty has published new figures (October 2014) on the level of child poverty in each constituency, local authority and ward in the UK.
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Where child poverty is highest
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Where child poverty is lowest
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