There are currently 3.7 million children living in poverty in the UK. That’s over a quarter of all children. 1.7 million of these children are living in severe poverty. In the UK 63% of children living in poverty are in a family where someone works.
These child poverty statistics and factswill help to give you an idea of the scale of child poverty in the UK and the affect it can have on:
- a child's education
- a child's health
- the day to day lives of families.
Families living in poverty can have as little as £13 per day per person to buy everything they need such as food, heating, toys, clothes, electricity and transport. Poverty impacts on what families can spend, one in ten of the poorest families can't afford to send their children on school trip, compared to one in a hundred of the richest families, 58 per cent of the poorest families would like to go on holiday once a year but cannot, only 5 per cent of the richest families cannot afford this luxury.
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