How many children in your area live in a home where no one is working?
For obvious reasons, children are at a high risk of living in poverty when their parents do not work. Helping parents to move into sustainable work helps lift them, and their children out of poverty.
The child poverty map shows;
- the number of out work families with children; and
- the number of children living in out of work families;
Within in each Welsh local authority (county, district and unitary authority) at 1 April 2009(1)
It is important to note that the maps do not consider in work poverty which accounts for a high percentage(2) of children living in poverty.
For more information please read the attachment or visit HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS
The local authority of each sample case was identified using the postcode held on the tax credits computer system. These postcodes were matched to the August 2008 Postcode Directory supplied by the Office for National Statistics.
The tables show the numbers of out of work families with children. These numbers include both such families receiving CTC and those instead receiving the equivalent amounts via the child and related allowances in Income Support or income-based Jobseeker's Allowance.
The figures are estimates based on a sample comprising 10 per cent of single adults (and couples receiving their child support via benefits) and 20 per cent of other couples with awards at the reference date.
(1) As defined by HM Revenue Customs.
(2) The UK figures for 2007/2008 indicate that 59% of children live households where at least one adult is working.