To be sad 32% of children near me are in poverty?

[Redisthecolour]

www.nomorekidsinpoverty.uk/ how about you?

How can this be acceptable??

[ghostyslovesheep]

this wont end well OP

Yanbu but there will be plenty of people along to inform you that 'they all have Sky TV etc etc' and so aren't poor

[GreenSand]

I put in our postcode before we moved out of the UK. We lived in the posh end of town and child poverty was at 20% looking at the map link, not that far away are some of the poorest parts of the country, and that is only going to be escalated by the recent closure of the stealworks, and the lack of interest the government has shown in the situation.

[LumpySpacedPrincess]

Too true ghosty, 'not proper poverty is it, not like wot we had in are day...ad nausium

It's shocking how many people are living in poverty in our wealthy country, we should be ashamed.

[LumpySpacedPrincess]

or even on our day.

[NoArmaniNoPunani]

It's 20% where I am :(

[LumpySpacedPrincess]

in not on

[LumpySpacedPrincess]

31% and I'm in the affluent South East, which is a joke.

[AndNowItsSeven]

Can you make link clicky please

[HighwayDragon1]

14.04% here, we're in affluent south east too.

[JeffsanArsehole]

24.5% live in poverty in Chelsea and Fulham

Yet there's not one flat with two beds for sale under half a million quid

There's very little un purchased social housing (most bought under right to buy, now 2 bed flats are selling for 600k plus)

So really, where are they ?

[GreenSand]

clicky link, I hope

[pegscat]

29% here, but to me being on a low income does not equal poverty. In fact sometimes it can be quite a decent lifestyle.

[KeepOnMoving1]

Almost 40% in our affluent area. This doesn't seem a reliable source

[EatDessertFirst]

25.77% in my area. Sadly, I'm not surprised.

[WorraLiberty]

37% here, although I'm pretty sure it's higher than that.

[chanie44]

The following is for greater London :

Area we live 35%
Area I grew up in 45%
Area OH grew up in 40%

[LumpySpacedPrincess]

Highway, all the poverty close to us is bunched up in South Thanet.

[HainaultViaNewburyPark]

30% here (15% where I grew up).

Although as there is no indication of what 'in poverty' actually means, these are just meaningless figures.

[PeppasNanna]

36% here...

I personally think its likely to be higher but such a transient borough gathering statistics are difficult.

[Mistigri]

42% in the historically deprived North London area where I spent my young adulthood.

And 32% in the leafy west London area where I grew up!

[RJnomore1]

27% here, I don't need to use the link, it's a main driver for my work.

Here over 50% of children in poverty don't live in "deprived" areas.

[ohtheholidays]

23.8% and were in the south east.I think it's bloody awful but as a family we do try and do something about it,we buy food,toiletries,cleaning stuff and stick money on the gas and electric of the one's that we know are going without.

[Sallyingforth]

The numbers are meaningless. It depends entirely where you set the boundary. There are people living on the street, there are others living in temporary B&B, there are others in relatively comfortable flats but surviving on benefits. Where does poverty stop?

[RJnomore1]

I believe the boundaries for poverty are set when people are unable to access things which would allow them to be included in mainstream society. Which seems absolutely fair to me.

[Fayrazzled]

JeffsanArsehole- the price of housing to buy isn't really an indicator of deprivation in an area is it? Chelsea might be a very affluent area popular with the monied classes, but according to the last Census, it's one of the most densely populated areas of the country. 25% of households live in social housing and 36% of households live in rented private accommodation. Like many parts of London there are huge variations between the 'haves' and 'have-nots'. Just because you can buy a townhouse for £20million in Ken & Chel doesn't mean there aren't people living there in terrible poverty.