Andrew Marr brands UK poverty levels a ‘national disgrace’ following the release of the Jacob Rowntree 2024 report. | LBC Radio | lbc · Original audio
Andrew Marr brands UK poverty levels a ‘national disgrace’ following the release of the Jacob Rowntree 2024 report.. lbc · Original audio
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"The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on poverty in the UK shows 3 in every 10 children in the UK are living in poverty.
The report finds:
The number and proportion of children in poverty rose between 2020/21 and 2021/22, as did overall poverty. There are now 4.2 million children living poverty.
Three in every ten children are in poverty (29%) in 2021/22, an increase from 27% in 2020/21. Around nine in twenty children in lone parent families (44%) lived in poverty, compared with five in twenty of those in couple families (25%).
Children have consistently had the highest poverty rates throughout the past 25 years. Children have higher risks of poverty overall (29% versus 22% for the whole population)
Poverty rates were higher among many minority ethnic groups than they were for white people in the UK. In particular, between 2019/20 and 2021/22, around half of people in Pakistani (51%) and Bangladeshi (53%) households lived in poverty, with even higher poverty levels for children in those households (61% and 62%). In comparison, 25% of children in households headed by someone of white ethnicity were in poverty.
Child poverty rates in Scotland (24%) remain much lower than those in England (31%) and Wales (28%) and are similar (if slightly higher) than in Northern Ireland (22%).
Among people in poverty, food insecurity is most common among children and people in lone-parent families. In 2021/22, more than one in five children in poverty (22%) experienced insecurity, compared with 18% of working-age adults."
RCPCH responds to JRF’s UK Poverty 2024 Report
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report on poverty in the UK shows 3 in every 10 children in the UK are living in poverty.
