Child poverty on the rise

The new stats mapping the levels of child poverty across the UK are shocking. If you haven’t seen them already, stop reading this and go and look at what it says about your area. The numbers, showing how many children are living in families earning less than 60 per cent of the national median income, are particularly difficult to read if you’re looking at the worst affected areas – Tower Hamlets in London, Ladywood in Birmingham or Central Manchester. But shouldn’t we be just as shocked by the nine per cent in parts of Sheffield or Aberdeen too?