The statistics, which present the child poverty landscape in mid-2011, have been released by the Campaign to End Child Poverty, which has mapped child poverty across the whole of the UK.
Constituencies with the highest levels of child poverty include Bethnal Green and Bow (51 per cent), Manchester Central (49 per cent), Poplar and Canning Town (48 per cent) and Belfast West (46 per cent).
A more localised breakdown reveals that in 100 wards throughout the UK, the majority of children remain in poverty.
At the other end of the spectrum the report reveals that 89 constituencies already meet the government's headline target for 2020 by having child poverty rates of 10 per cent or lower.
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