Mapping child poverty

The End Child Poverty campaign has published a (widely reported) map of child poverty in the UK. Levels are mapped by local authority area and (for maximum impact) parliamentary constituency. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's annual monitoring poverty and social exclusion report makes for equally uncomfortable reading, noting a rise in fuel poverty and homelessness, as well as unemployment and underemployment. In a speech last month former Labour MP and now government advisor on social mobility and child poverty, Alan Milburn, predicted a rise in child poverty rates.