There are fears that the North East’s child poverty crisis “is only going to get worse”, after the region was named as the UK’s new deprivation capital.
Harrowing figures released by the End Child Poverty Coalition have revealed that the proportion of children growing up in poverty in the North East is now 38% and rising, overtaking London where rates are falling.
National child poverty in the UK fell to its lowest level in seven years in the first year of the pandemic, but has rocketed from 26% to 38% in our region between 2014 and 2021. And there are fears that the cost of living crisis and the withdrawal of the £20 Universal Credit uplift last year will push more and more families into hardship.
