Councils collaborate to tackle child poverty in Liverpool

According to the commission, as many as 91,000 children are blighted by poverty with 17,000 families surviving on less than £108 per week.

In a strategy launched alongside the statistics, the commission has made 85 recommendations, which include working with the government to boost the numbers of midwives and health visitors, and making sure Jobcentre Plus and similar organisations focus on the needs of parents.

Six councils have signed up to the Liverpool City Region strategy – Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St. Helens, and Wirral.

MP Frank Field, chair of the Liverpool City Region Child Poverty and Life Chances Commission, said: "Six local authorities and their partners have come together with the single aim of spending their existing budgets more effectively. We will achieve this objective by adopting the practices of whatever activity has proved to be the most effective approach in its outcomes on decreasing poverty and increasing life chances.