The charity says that the figures around poverty have become “wearily familiar”, and mask the reality of families “who face a constant battle just to afford basic items” .
The annual poverty report from the foundation finds that 14.3 million people in the UK live in poverty (21%), including 8.1 million working adults and 4.3 million children (30%) – with 17% of children living in “persistent poverty”.
Within this, around 44% of children in lone-parent families live in poverty compared with 26% of those in couple families. The report adds: “Adults and children in lone-parent families are by far the most likely of any family types to be struggling with poverty.”
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