75% of London children in poverty from employed households, new figures show

T hree quarters of children in poverty in London have at least one parent in a job, new analysis has found.The statistics from Loughborough University shows that overall a third of London's children are in poverty with Tower Hamlets having the highest rate in the country at 47.5 per cent.Four out of the 20 worst affected council areas in the country are the capital, it shows: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Hackney and Barking and Dagenham.

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