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Save the Children: Child Poverty on the Increase

As you would expect, over a half of children living in poverty in the UK live in either single-parent households or homes were neither parent is employed.

Save the Children (a well respected organisation protecting UK kids) carried out research which shows that almost 200,000 more under 16’s across the nation live in poverty compared to this time last year.

According to the organistation, a rise in children residing in ‘unemployed homes’ has taken place in recent years on an unprecedented scale. This has no doubt been compounded by the fact that we are in the middle of a deep recession but nevertheless the figures look particularly bleak especially when compared to an earlier similar period.

Out of all the UK countries, Wales is experiencing the worst problems. Bridgend, Flintshire, Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire are the areas pinpointed by Save the Children as the main culprates.

The choices between food, heating and transport costs that these families need to make is a tough one which is putting pressure on their lifestyles to change.

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