A third of children are living in poverty in Bristol - equating to ten school children out of a class of 30 - according to new data. The city has the highest levels of child poverty across the whole South West region.
New research by Loughborough University has been conducted on behalf of the End Child Poverty Coalition's annual review of UK child poverty levels in local authorities. In Bristol, this figure reaches a third - 32.6 per cent - of all children and young people – or a staggering 10 children in a classroom of 30.
The local authority with the second-highest level of child poverty is Torridge in North Devon. In the South West as a whole, a quarter of children are living in poverty, or eight children in a class of 30 using the latest data available between 2020 and 2021.
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