Latest Telford Child Poverty Figures Released
Latest Telford Child Poverty Figures Released
The End Child Poverty coalition has published figures providing a new Child Poverty map of the UK. The new figures reveal that there are now places within the UK where more than half of children are growing up in poverty – compared to one in ten, in the areas with the lowest child poverty rates.
Nowhere in Telford gets to 50%, the closest is Woodside with 44%, after housing costs.
What is poverty?
Forget lack of access to clean water, a roof over your head, three meals a day and an iPhoneX, End Child Poverty’s measure is this; ‘Households are living in poverty if their household income (adjusted to account for household size,) is less than 60% of the average.’
This method means that there can be no end to child poverty, unless every household gets exactly the same income to the penny, whether its £50 a week or £5000 a week.
Any surprises in this list?
Disgusting that any child in 2018 is living in poverty can’t see it changing. Cost of living going up. Wages or benefits are not keeping up with it so sad
This list is meaningless…
Caroline Welson
Why is a iPhone included in this measurement of poverty?
What a load of old tosh
60% of the average UK salary is £16560 so if you earn that technical your in poverty, does the study count for child benefits, income tax credits ect?
Rob Pierce
Where’s Wellington
There seems to be a link between ‘poverty’ and house prices, obviously those on a lower income will be in the cheaper housing areas ie brookside/woodside. So this list only reflects the obvious- lower incomes (or child poverty as theyre calling it) = living in cheaper housing areas.
98.8% of all statistics are completely made up ..
Where’s suttonhill? X
Few questions… firstly, is the average the national minimum?
If so then a household would have to earn £9.6k or less to be classed as in poverty… as average household earnings are about £24k.
Equally what’s the methodology behind the adjustment per household?
I think you need to educate yourself about what an average is. You can everyone earning different amounts and still not have anyone on less than 60% of the average.
Circa 22% of children in the Ironbridge Gorge living in poverty??
Never read such rubbish
Load of rubbish…..
Complete nonsense when being on benefits in the UK puts you in the richest 20% of the worlds population.
Sophie Talbot
There are Lies, Damned Lies and there are Statistics. “Average” is meaningless here.
Lisa Bethell bring bk our uni days – miss them now x