There are 440,000 children living in poverty despite their parent/s working full-time jobs – busting the myth that all families can “work their way out of poverty”.
As recently as November, prime minister Rishi Sunak said: “The absolute best way to ensure that children do not grow up in poverty is to ensure that they do not grow up in a workless household.”
However, for some years now the number of families living in poverty while in work has been increasing – in 2019/20, 75% of children living in poverty were in families with at least one adult in full or part-time work.
And for many families, increasing the hours they work or accessing work at all is difficult, according to a new study from Action for Children.
