Save the Children issues new research which “reveals the number of children living in deepest poverty remains unacceptably high at 1.6 million.”
Save the Children has provided a local authority breakdown of the figures, detailing the top ten authority areas with the highest levels of severe child poverty:
1 Manchester 27%
2 Tower Hamlets 27%
3 Newham 25%
4 Leicester 24%
5 Westminster 24%
6 Nottingham 23%
7 Liverpool 23%
8 Birmingham 23%
9 Blackpool 22%
10 Hackney 22%