a post by Donald Hirsch (Loughborough Univerisity) for the CPAG blog
Which of the following statements tells you more?
Around 4 million of Britain’s 14 million children live in households classified as in poverty because they have below 60% of median income after housing costs.
Among the 2,200 children who live in the Notting Barns area of Kensington, site of Grenfell Tower, nearly a thousand are in families with very low incomes. Just over half a mile away, among the 2,200 children living in three wards around Kensington High Street and Cromwell Road, only 150 are in this situation.
In fact each statement is useful: the first shows the overall extent of child poverty and the second what it looks like on the ground.
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but if you really can’t then do, please, read this final paragraph from the Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy. Donald Hirsch knows what he's talking about.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies forecasts that child poverty will continue to rise at an alarming rate, more than wiping out the considerable falls that took place in the 2000s. This will have very real impacts at the local level, which we will continue to estimate. A government that simultaneously publishes these figures but boasts about its progress on another measure purporting to show the opposite has its head stuck very firmly in the sand.
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