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Joseph Rowntree 2025 Poverty Report confirms its been 20 years since any major improvement in poverty across the UK.
This is hardly surprising given for 15 years we had a Tory Govt. which whatever they may have declared had no real interest in reducing poverty.
Child poverty is often urban & concentrated in the Midlands & North of England while overall around one in five UK residents are in poverty!
Reversing this looks unlikely under the current Govt. too
#poverty
https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, that accounts for fifteen then. Surely you’re not mystified by the other five?
So this could be presented as a feature of life under the previous Labour government, and this was hardly likely to change under the Tory government. Here we are back with Labour again.
Given that consequences always lag policy and actions we know that the reasons were in place well before.
No wonder folk despair that, whoever they vote for, the government gets in.
No, that's fair comment.... by the end of the last Labour Govt. their early moves towards poverty reduction had already (largely) run their course.... but there were some earlier in their term, which we shouldn't forget either
@ChrisMayLA6 no surprises in this report
@ChrisMayLA6 Having worked in a rural area, whilst I'm sure most child poverty is in urban areas, simply because most people live in urban areas. Rural poverty is often worse, as there is no support network, and the state requires attending remote centres to even submit a claim. 4 bus rides over 8 hours with three children to get to DWP office, then a return trip the next day as the last bus leaves at midday.....so the poverty is simply unrecorded and unrecognised.
yes, that would seem likely
I am not sure that this should be allowed to lend itself to an anti-London narrative. So long as one uses - as one should - figures after housing costs - to measure poverty child poverty is a major issue in London.
Well, I was drawing my summary from the JRF, but I'm sure that you're right on its incidence
@ChrisMayLA6 "Growth" Labour replies, like it's an answer