CYP Now - One million under-fours ‘growing up in poverty’

One million children under the age of four are growing up in poverty, a charity's report has revealed.

Some children have spent the majority of their lives in poverty, experts warn. Picture: Adobe Stock

Based on analysis of latest data available, from 2020/21, the report found that a total of 13.4m people are in poverty, including 3.9m children.

Among children in poverty 1.3m are primary school age and one million are under four years old. Two in five of all children in poverty are from a lone parent households.

Meanwhile, one in six children live in persistent poverty, defined as spending at least three out of the last four years in poverty.

“For young children that is nearly their whole life,” said the charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), which has published the findings in its UK Poverty 2023 report.

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