More than one in four children are living in poverty in Wales, according to a damning new report. The study, by Loughborough University commissioned for the Wales Child Poverty Eradication Network, found that child poverty was highest in Blaenau Gwent (30.3%) and Ceredigion (30%).
However, in Monmouthshire, the local authority with the lowest rates, there are more than one in five children (21.4%) living in poverty. Dr Steffan Evans of the Bevan Foundation said the new data shows child poverty is a Wales-wide issue and needed to be viewed as a national problem.
Across Wales, almost 28% of children are living in poverty after housing costs. This rises to 80% of children living in poverty in Welsh working households before housing costs - the second highest in the UK behind the south east of England.
