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Nearly a third of UK children in poverty even before pandemic
Big business and the super-rich have seen their fortunes reach stratospheric levels in recent years. Last year’s
Sunday Times Rich List revealed the richest 1,000 people in Britain had amassed nearly £750 billion in known income and assets. Throughout the pandemic multi-billion-pound bailout schemes shovelled more wealth to those at the top.
But as the pandemic began, record numbers of children were living in poverty. A survey of households earning less than 60 percent of average income in March 2020 found the number of children living in poverty had risen to 4.3 million, up from 4.1 million the year before.
The 10 worst neighbourhoods for child poverty in Birmingham revealed
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Alarming figures have revealed the ten areas with the highest levels of child poverty in Birmingham â and experts warn they could rise.
The worrying stats show that even before coronavirus hit last year more than 100,000 children across the city are living below the breadline.
Over 20,000 children had fallen from the school register by last autumn s reopening
The head of Ofsted has warned that some of these children may be at risk as they are out of sight of the authorities
Pupils return to school last autumn, after several months of home schooling
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Over 20,000 children had fallen off the school register by the time schools reopened last autumn, figures have revealed, amid warnings that vulnerable children may be “falling through the gaps”.
Local authority chiefs reported a 38 per cent rise in the number of children being “electively home educated” when the annual school census was recorded on Oct 1.
There has been a huge rise in child poverty - see the figures for your postcode
Our interactive shows how many children are living below the breadline in your neighbourhood
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A rising number of children in Greater Manchester are living in poverty, according to new Government figures.