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Shocking new data about child poverty in Yorkshire

20 October 2014

Shocking new data about child poverty has been published by the Campaign to End Child Poverty.

In Yorkshire and Humber Hull has 34% child poverty and even in more affluent areas such as Harrogate 14% of children are poor.There are useful tables showing child poverty by local authority and constituency.

The campaign calls on all political parties to set out a roadmap towards ending child poverty.

This is in addition to a stark warning given by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission today, which said that the country was likely to see an "unprecedented" rise in child poverty over the next decade as the effect of welfare cuts and low pay bites, with "little prospect" of Britons' life chances improving in the immediate future.

The Huffington Post headline 'Britain risks becoming a permanently divided nation" makes shocking reading.

We know the negative impacts on health, mental wellbeing and job prospects of child poverty and the huge costs - why is it getting worse?

Click here to read the Campaign to End Child Poverty report