Children and Poverty

• 30% of Children in the UK are now living in poverty – 4.1 million children. (DWP 2019)
• 47% of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty (DWP 2019)
• 70% of children growing up in poverty live in working families (DWP 2019)
• 5.2 million children are expected to be in poverty by 2022 (Institute for Fiscal Studies 2017)