Research has uncovered an ‘alarming’ increase in child poverty in North East England.
The top 10 local authority areas that experienced the greatest increase in child poverty between 2014/15 and 2019/20 were all located in the North East, according to figures collected for the End Child Poverty Coalition by Loughborough University.
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