Child poverty predicted to rise in most of UK except Scotland

Labour’s election manifesto committed it to an ‘ambitious strategy’ to reduce child poverty. Photograph: Ian West/PA

Child poverty is on course to increase in most of the UK by the end of this parliament, with only Scotland bucking the trend, according to analysis by a poverty charity.

Although Labour’s election manifesto committed it to an “ambitious strategy” to reduce child poverty, only in Scotland will rates have fallen by 2029 under current economic projections, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said.