Report documents over one million "severely poor" children in UK

In line with the demands of British and international big business, corporate taxes have been slashed, billionaires live tax-free, the welfare state is being dismantled and privatised, and low paid and temporary work has become increasingly normalised. The result has been exposed in a report published earlier his month by the charity Save the Children. Based on extensive research and scientific methodology, the report uncovers Dickensian levels of poverty.

The charity’s research has found there are 1.3 million children in the United Kingdom living in "severe poverty"—over 10 percent of the total population 0-19 years of age. A further 21.3 percent of all children were categorised as suffering from "non-severe poverty."

Severe Child Poverty in the UK , written by Monica Magadi and Sue Middleton, classifies children as being in severe poverty if they satisfy two separate measures: One, they live in households with an income of below half the median household income after housing costs are deducted, and two, they suffer various forms of material deprivation according to household surveys. Children from families with less than 70 percent of median income and who satisfy a less severe degree of material deprivation are classified as being non-severely poor.

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