Children in Low Income Families Indicators

End Child Poverty

Inclusion, working with Donald Hirsch, an independent consultant, provided End Child Poverty with child poverty measures using tax credit data, which gave the percentage of children on low incomes in local authorities and constituencies across the UK, as well as the more local ward level. This is not a direct measure of exactly how many children are in poverty, but is a good indicator of which areas have the highest child poverty levels. It is the closest measure we have at the moment of local levels of child poverty.

Official measures of child poverty are based on a national survey of family income, which shows poverty at national and regional level, but not in more local areas in England and Wales and in local zones in Scotland.

Find out the levels of child poverty in your local authority or constituency by visiting the End Child Poverty website.