New figures suggest that 40.0% of children under 16 in Nottingham were part of families with low income in 2022/23, according to data from the Department for Work and Pensions.Nottingham is just one of several big UK cities to have a similar statistic. In Birmingham, 40.8% of kids fell into the data, while Leicester had 40.6% and Manchester 39.4%.
Just over half of all UK local authorities have seen an increase in child poverty since 2019/20, while about nine in 10 recorded a higher level in 2022/23 than in 2014/15.
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