In 2019/20, 75% of children lived in households with high food security. This means that 25% of children lived in households with marginal, low or very low food security. Children in poverty were less likely to have high food security: just 48% of those in relative poverty, and 49% of those in absolute poverty lived in high food security households.
While in-work poverty amongst families with children is projected to grow in the coming years it should not be forgotten that poverty in workless households with children will rise even faster, with almost 90% of workless families with children in poverty by 2029/30.
Priority groups
Some types of households with children are known to be at a particularly high risk of poverty. These include households with single parents, three or more children, disabled household members, of a minority ethnic background, with a child aged under one, or a mother aged under 25. These groups do not cover everyone at higher risk of poverty, but taken together, they cover the majority of households with children that are in poverty.
There are several factors involved which level the playing field regardless of someone’s wages/income. The ‘true cost of living’ which looks at everything from property prices, taxes, energy costs to grocery shopping have been explored by the partnership in terms of how best to support local people.
Alongside the national funding packages in Angus a lot of work has been done to explore the barriers local people are facing.
Links
Family resources survey
HMRC, Personal Tax Credits: Children in low-income family’s local measure
Scottish Government, Scottish Household Survey - Adults dataset