Children in long-term workless households highest for more than a decade

Around one in 10 children in the UK are estimated to live in a long-term workless household (Geoffrey Robinson/Alamy) -

The number of children living in long-term workless households in the UK has risen to its highest level for more than a decade, figures suggest.

Some 1.31 million children were in households last year where no adult had worked for at least 12 months, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).