A quarter of children live in poverty in Sidford, Sidmouth

Child poverty is increasing everywhere:
The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem - The New York Times
These Photos Show Life in the Poorest Towns in America - Time
Commentary: I Live in a ‘Shithole’ Country. It’s the U.S. | Fortune

In the UK, 30% of children live below the poverty line:
End Child Poverty | Improving the lives of children and families

The End Child Poverty charity has just published an area-by-area report - and some parts of the UK are doing really badly:

24th January 2018

MORE THAN HALF OF CHILDREN NOW LIVING IN POVERTY IN SOME PARTS OF THE UK

PRESS RELEASE 

24 January 2018   

MORE THAN HALF OF CHILDREN NOW LIVING IN POVERTY IN SOME PARTS OF THE UK   

The End Child Poverty coalition has today published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK.  The new figures reveal that there are now constituencies within the UK where more than half of children are growing up in poverty – compared to one in ten, in the areas with the lowest child poverty rates. 

The figures also show that some of the most deprived areas of the UK have seen the biggest increases in child poverty since the coalition’s last local child poverty figures for December 2015. Increases of 10 percentage points1 in some areas demonstrate the growing crisis of child poverty in the UK. As price rises risk pushing ever larger numbers of children below the poverty line, the coalition is calling on the Chancellor to end the freeze ...

Poverty in your area 2018 | Improving the lives of children and families

This has been widely reported in the press:
Nearly half of all children in London, Birmingham and Manchester live in poverty, finds study | The Independent
More than half of children in UK's poorest areas are now living in poverty | Metro News
The child poverty statistics are George Osborne's final legacy - New Statesman

Particularly in the local press. In Devon there are some very high numbers: and even in Sidmouth the figures are only just below the average:

Sidmouth Sidford

302

25.62%

East Devon

Nearly half of children living in poverty in some areas of Devon - where is the highest and lowest rate? - Devon Live

See also:
Futures Forum: Welfare for the poor... welfare for the rich
Futures Forum: Against charity: a critique of food banks
Futures Forum: Two in every five people employed in the UK are in ‘bad jobs’
Futures Forum: "Austerity has been presented as a necessary evil. It’s not."
Futures Forum: The widening wealth gap: "Shifts in who owns what property are now fuelling the wealth gap between rich and poor, while also creating sharp wealth divides between young and old."
Futures Forum: Fairness and/or equality
Futures Forum: Universal Basic Income and Negative Income Tax versus 'funding for the more deserving poor'
Futures Forum: Absolute vs relative poverty
Futures Forum: Are things actually getting better?
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