London may be one of the world's richest cities but it is also home tosome of the highest levels of child poverty in the UK.
The extent of child poverty in the capital is highlighted in a recentreport issued by the London Child Poverty Commission. Monitoring ChildPoverty in London collates figures on poverty in the capital to show theextent of the problem and where pockets of child poverty are. Ithighlights how 39 per cent of children in London live in povertycompared to a Great Britain-wide average of 28 per cent and how thepercentage of London families in overcrowded housing is twice that ofthe rest of the country (10 per cent).
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