The campaign mapped levels of child poverty by local authority, parliamentary constituency and local ward level as they stood last summer, in an attempt to show the government how far it must go to live up to the promise of eradicating child poverty by 2020.
According to the map, the worst affected area is Tower Hamlets where the majority of children (57 per cent) are living in poverty. Islington, Hackney, Newham, Manchester, Westminster, Camden, Haringey, Barking and Dagenham, and Nottingham all have more than a third of children living in poverty.
Alison Garnham, executive director of the campaign and chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group, said: "David Cameron pledged to make British poverty history and we now have a local map of the child poverty rate in each area at the time he took office and his work towards this goal began.
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